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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SUBSCRIBERS 
We stop the press to give a brief account of the annual meet¬ 
ing of the subscribers to the Veterinary College, held to-day, 
(May 28,) at the Thatched-House Tavern. A more detailed 
narrative shall appear in our next, with such remarks as the very 
extraordinary circumstances of the case may appear to require. 
John Holme Sumner, Esq. was in the chair. 
The first business was to confirm the minutes of the preceding 
meeting. The office of president having become vacant by the 
death of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, it had been re¬ 
commended, humbly to solicit the-Duke of Clarence to occupy 
that situation. The delegation now announced that His Royal 
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Highness had graciously acceded to their request. 
The constitution of the medical examining committee had 
been the subject of discussion at the last meeting, and it had 
appeared to the subscribers, and had been acknowledged by 
Mr. Coleman, that the committee would be more effective, and 
much advantage would result, if a limited number of veterinary 
surgeons were added to the present examiners. As a matter of 
courtesy it was resolved that application should be made to the 
present examiners, to ascertain whether they were willing to 
admit some veterinarians among them. 
Sir Astley Cooper, Drs. Cook and Pearson, and Messrs. Bell, 
Brodie, Coleman, and Green were present when this applica¬ 
tion was made. They gave to it no direct reply; but recom¬ 
mended that a second and distinct committee should be forrmed, 
consisting entirely of veterinary surgeons with the two profess¬ 
ors, before whorti the candidates should first appear, and, if 
passed by them, should afterwards undergo the ordeal of the 
old committee. , 
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A special meeting of governors had been appointed to receive 
the determination of the examiners, and that meeting foreseeing 
the confusion which would necessarily, and the misunderstand¬ 
ing which would probably arise from so crude and undigested a 
proposition unanimously rejected it, and requested the old com¬ 
mittee to continue their functions. Possibly—we say possibly. 
