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“ 25. Good-service pensions shall be awarded to the most meritorious 
medical officers of our army, under such regulations as shall be from 
time to time determined by us, with the advice of our Secretary of 
State for War. 
“ 26. Six of the most meritorious medical officers of the army 
shall be named My Honorary Physicians, and six. My Honorary 
Surgeons. 
“ Given atom- Court of St. James’s, this first day of October, 1858, 
in the twenty-second year of our reign. 
“By her Majesty’s command, 
“ J. Peel.” 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
ACTING-SECRETARY’S REPORT EOR THE TWENTY-SECOND 
SESSION, 1857-8. 
Gentlemen. — At the close of each session it is the 
duty of the acting secretary to lay before the members a 
report of the proceedings of the Association, and that duty 
I this evening have to discharge* 
The statement of the financial affairs of the Association 
was placed before you at the commencement of the session 
by Professor Morton, and consequently it needs not now to 
be especially referred to. 
At the meeting with which this session commenced, you 
elected as vice-presidents Messrs. Hewson, Hood, Cope, 
Cutting, Roberts, and Bland, with myself as your acting 
secretary ; and when two of the vice-presidents, namely^, 
Messrs. Cutting and Bland, became members of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, Messrs. Bovett and Maw 
were chosen to serve in their stead. 
During the session nineteen new members have been 
elected from among the students of this College, and essays 
have been read by the following gentlemen : 
Mr. H . Cutting , on the ‘ Condition of the Blood, in relation 
to the Exhibition of Diuretic Agents to the Horse/ 
Mr. H. E. Hood , on ‘ Sulphur and its Compounds, as used 
in Veterinary Practice/ 
Mr. IV. A. Cox , on ‘ Veterinary Obstetrics/ 
Mr. F. Bland, on the ‘Supporters of Combustion/ 
Mr. E. J. Bovett, on the ‘Anatomy and Physiology of 
the Genital Organs of the Male, and the Predetermination 
of Sex/ 
Mr. Maw , on ‘ Castrat’on and Scrotal Hernia/ 
Mr. Parnell, on ‘ Some of the Diseases of the Stomachs of 
Ruminants/ 
Mr. C. Hewson , on the ‘ Philosophy of Disease/ 
