336 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr. Hunt moved that the Report be received. 
Mr. Jex (V.S. 1st Life Guards) seconded the motion. 
Mr. Vines, before the motion was put, expressed a wish to 
say a few words. 
Mr. Field doubted whether any member could speak on 
the motion for the reception of the Report, and suggested 
that the proper course would be to speak on the motion 
for its adoption. 
Mr. Vines said he did not intend to have a padlock put on 
his mouth this time, if they did it on the last occasion. He 
was very sorry to know that the College was in such a 
deplorable state, after the long time it had been in 
existence ; it being fourteen years ago, he believed, that the 
charter was obtained. He regretted to see that there was 
only <£232 in hand after the large amount of examination 
fees that had been received from the pupils. He was very 
sorry they had not got more funds ; for he had thought that 
by this time they might have accumulated a fund, so that 
when they were dead and gone their sons would have a 
College of their own, without going to the Royal Veterinary 
College of London for pupils. As an old member of the . 
profession, though a discarded one- — but discarded by men 
perhaps not so honorable as himself (“ order, order ”) — he 
regretted to see such a state of things, and to hear what had 
been said relative to the examinations. He was not a pro- 
fessor, but still he was a teacher 
The Chairman requested Mr. Vines to confine himself to 
the subject of the motion. (Hear, hear.) 
Mr. Vines said he was confining himself to the subject. He 
was speaking of the low state of the affairs of the College, 
and he did not see how they were to be better off unless 
they were more united. He came there that day as a friend 
to the College, not that he w r anted to be elected on the 
Council, and he hoped that if he was proposed no member 
would vote for him. (Laughter.) 
Mr. Ernes said he must protest against this introduction 
of irrelevant matter. Mr. Vines was out of all order, for the 
subject to which he was referring could only be brought 
forward at the voting for the members of the Council. 
Mr. Vines contended that he was in order. He considered 
that the low state of the College was caused by the members 
not being united ; but he hoped the day was not far distant 
when they would be more so. He knew he was a very hasty 
fellow, but at the same time he was a very forgiving one. 
(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to get into the Council, but he 
hoped that they would adopt his suggestion, for it was no 
