240 ANNUAI. MEETING OF SUBSCRIBERS TO 
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was produced, in which not one word appeared respecting the 
actual cure; but this sum was voted, and we think ‘^very prO“ 
perly, as a partial reimbursement of tlie veiy consideral)le ex¬ 
pense which he had incurred in the zealous prosecution of his 
experiments on glanders. How the other version of the story 
became so current among the profession and the public we pre¬ 
sume not to enquire. 
The financial repoit was now read, but so rapidly that we 
were unable to follow the secretary. We were the less anxious 
about this, as we knew that every subscriber had free access to 
the books of the college, and we should be able to extmct the 
report at our leisure. On application, however, to the clerk, a 
few days afterward, we were told that the time was past, and 
that the accounts were open to the inspection of the subsciibers 
during the week only preceding the audit. 
■ On further enquiry we learned that this was a new regulation 
of the 'governors, and that it had not received the sanction of 
any general meeting; yet it was rigorously enforced, and w’e 
were refused the information we desired. 
We do not mean to question the propriety of this restriction. 
We are rather disposed to approve of it. We can conceive of 
many circumstances of inconvenience and annoyance if eveiy 
subscriber might, as often and as long as he please, occupy 
the time of the clerk by turning over, and extracting from or 
copying, a multiplicity of documents. But we a little complain 
that rthe governors should thus abridge the privileges of the 
subscribers‘without giving them notice of that abridgement; 
and that they should rigidly enforce this restriction before it 
was confirmed by a general meeting. We think, too, that 
when the purpose for which'we required this information was 
stated to the secretary, and well known by him, and consider¬ 
ing that we were misled-by.ignorahce of a restriction the exist¬ 
ence of which we could not possibly have divined, a little 
courtesy might have been shown to us. We will not, however, 
quarrel about this; but will proceed to give the financial report, 
as well as we can, from memory, not being answerable for any 
inaccuracy. 
