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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1858. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
THE APPROACHING ANNIVERSARY MEETING OE THE 
VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
Within a few days of our present number being in the 
hands of our readers, the time will have again arrived for the 
profession to exercise its legal rights in the election of its 
representative council. On the Monday, May 3d, ei the four- 
teenth Annual General Meeting of the members of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, will be held, in accordance 
with the provisions of the Charter, to receive the Annual 
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Council, and the Trea- 
surer’s Report ; and also to elect six members of the Council 
in the place of those “who go out by rotation.” 
Among those who retire we find ourselves ; and although it 
is possible that we may wish to seek the honour of re-election 
at the hands of our professional brethren, still we will not 
refrain from stating our conviction, that the time has arrived 
for new blood to be infused into the executive. We are not 
desirous of seeing the close borough system prevailing in the 
returns which are made, nor of witnessing that which hitherto 
has been too commonly the case, but few electors proceeding 
to the poll. We have had enough of family compacts and Old 
Sarum independence in the early days of our professional 
existence ; and we know of no more certain means of pre- 
venting a recurrence of these abuses, than for the profession 
to attend in goodly numbers and freely record its votes for 
those whom it believes to be best calculated to protect its 
interests and promote its advancement. 
It has sometimes been said, that there is but little to 
induce the members of the body corporate to travel from a 
distance to these annual gatherings, and that the apathy 
