334 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
That all the good that may be accomplished by the obtain- 
ment of the Charter has not been effected; is too true ; but 
there are certain indications here and there which, it may be 
hoped, will tend ultimately to results equally important and 
desirable. If the entire confidence of the existing schools be 
frankly and cordially given — if pupils find that in future a 
Membership of the College is an essential step to the attain- 
ment of an Army or East Indian appointment — nay, more, if 
some of those who have already obtained their appointments 
should hear it whispered, in unmistakeable and significant 
terms, that they too had better obtain the qualification they 
have hitherto omitted to secure, — then will the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons be enabled to take its proper position 
among the valuable and liberal institutions of the present 
day. Talent, on the one hand, arising from a carefully 
organized system of education having been instituted, and 
this devoted to ameliorating the condition and assuaging 
the sufferings of those animals on whom our comforts for 
services, and our very existence for food, so materially 
depend, — combined, on the other hand, with zeal and energy 
in developing the resources of veterinary science, — must 
inevitably secure for the members of our profession that 
respect and attention which, under such circumstances, they 
would so thoroughly deserve. 
E. N. Gabriel, 
Secretary . 
To this succeeded the reading of the annexed report of 
the Treasurer. 
