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In conformity with this he waited on the three ex-officers, and 
proposed that the matter in dispute between them and Mr. Vines 
should be submitted to arbitration, which they refused to ac- 
cede to. Mr. Sewell added, that the governors should be his only 
arbitrators, and to whom he should submit the whole affair. I 
understand that he still expresses the same determination ; 
and, except in case of certain events, it does seem to be his 
paramount duty to lay this business before the governors of the 
College. 
On the following night of meeting Mr. Coleman was not 
present at the time that the chair should have been taken ; but 
messenger after messenger was dispatched for him. In the 
meantime the business of the evening was entered upon, namely, 
the reading of Mr. Sander’s paper on the Influence of impure 
Air in the production of the Diseases of Animals. 
Half an hour before the usual time of separation the Professor 
came in. He apologized for his late appearance, and stated his 
earnest wish that matters might be yet arranged between the 
society and the ex-officers ; and then the business of the evening 
proceeded. 
Mr. Vines was also present. He thanked the society for the 
honour they had conferred upon him, and said that he regretted 
the unpleasant circumstances that had attended his re-election. 
On the following day a deputation waited on the Professor, 
to inquire what objection he had to Mr. Bracy Clark, whom 
they had appointed chairman to the society, but with whose 
occupancy of the chair he had interfered by the message which 
he had sent to Mr. Bracy Clark. 
At the regular meeting of the society on the 26th, Mr. Vines 
was elected a vice-president, and Mr. Coleman was considered 
to remain president, pro tempore. 
I offer no comment on this plain, and, I believe, faithful 
narrative. None is needed. Some parts of it speak much too 
plainly for themselves. I have, however, an imperative duty to 
perform, namely, to return my own thanks, and, I believe those 
of every past member of the society, to the late officers of it, 
for the noble stand which they made in defence of its honour. 
If the narrative has not been told with perfect accuracy — and 
it was difficult to get at certain parts of it — the error shall be 
promptly rectified ; with this indispensable proviso, that every 
letter on this subject shall be authenticated by the name and 
address of the writer. 
The recent scientific discussions of the London Veterinary 
Medical Society have done it infinite honour. I have no hesi- 
tation in saying, that the debates in former times — in my time — 
