290 MONTHLY ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
“ That, while we feel grateful to our President for his indefatiga- 
ble attention to our improvement, we are compelled to recognize 
a disagreeable contrast in the conduct of our late librarian, Mr. 
Vines ; conduct at once injurious to us as members of the Lon- 
don Veterinary Medical Society, and derogatory to himself as an 
officer of this Institution. 
“ That, in justice to the spirit and independence of our yet in- 
fant society, we are compelled to pass a vote of censure on Mr. 
Vines ; and further, that we do accept his uncourteous and un- 
gentlemanly resignation both as a fellow and honorary associate 
of the Society, made at the last night of meeting.' ” 
The meeting of the Committee was then adjourned ; and on the 
same evening the regular meeting of the Society was held — Mr. 
McTaggart in the chair. The members confirmed every act of 
the Committee of Management ; and the resolutions respecting 
the late librarian being severally put and carried, without a 
hand being held up against them, were, at the close, received 
with acclamation. 
Four years passed on, and Mr. Vines lost no opportunity of 
ridiculing the proceedings of the Society, disavowing all con- 
nexion with it, and endeavouring to persuade the students from 
belonging to it, and occasionally succeeding in that attempt ; 
when on March the 8th, 1836, an Essay on the Circulation and 
General Physiology of the Blood, by Mr. Rush, was read by the 
secretary, it contained a rapid sketch of the discovery of the 
circulation of the blood, and of the several steps by which its 
composition and functions had been elucidated. Honourable 
mention was made of the earlier labourers in this field ; and then 
an able expose was given of the opinions now generally enter- 
tained on this subject, and with which he mainly coincided. It 
was a laboured performance, and reflected much credit on the 
writer. 
A short pause, as usual, ensued ; when Mr. Vines, who, at- 
tracted by the information he had obtained that his own favourite 
subject, the nature and the circulation of the blood, was to be 
the matter discussed had attended the present meeting, arose. 
He acknowledged that the essay that had just been read was the 
result of much research: but complained in strong terms of the 
injustice that was done to himself. Not one of the discoveries 
which he had made on this subject, he said, was fairly acknow- 
ledged ; and even the new and correct theory of the function of 
the foramen ovale was not attributed to him. Then, growing 
more warm, he denounced the essay as one tissue of plagiarism ; 
and said that he could not believe that Mr. Rush was or could 
