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250 VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The secretaiy then indignantly refused to take charge of it^ 
He offered it to the chairman of the latter part of the evening, 
and then to the son of the first chairman; and when, on their 
refusal to receive it, the money was left on his table, he got rid 
of it as quickly as he could by returning to every gentleman his 
subsciiption. 
Thus ended the first general meeting of veterinary surgeons; 
and by these last acts, and the non-appointment of any officer, 
the Veterinary Society (for this name it had assumed, the term 
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medical being dropped) was virtually broken up. 
It was, indeed, sufficiently evident, that a society commencing 
in dissension, and in which good manners and good feelings 
were so early and- so flagrantly violated, • could not possibly 
lead to friendly intercourse, or promote the improvement of the 
art; and the majority of those who had attended the first two 
meetings determined no longer to engage in a contest painful 
to themselves and injurious to the profession; but they would 
not abandon a purpose which promised so fairly to accomplish 
the ardent wishes of every friend of the profession, nor permit 
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the cause of veterinary science to be sacrificed to the inconsi¬ 
derate violence of a few of their brethren. They would not, 
however, do any thing in haste or in anger, but awaited the 
result of the adjourned meeting'of the Veterinaiy Society (if 
such should be held) ere they took any decisive steps. 
On the 17th of June this meeting was held. It was attended 
by the Messrs. Cherry, father and two sons, Messrs. Charles 
Clark, Hart, and Rogers, a minority of precisely one-fourth of 
the original number. • Two veterinary surgeons afterwards 
dropped in, but who were not friendly to the proceedings of this 
minority. These six gentlemen, however, determined to pro¬ 
ceed in establishing a veterinary society, and, abandoning the 
appointed place of meeting, adjourned to Little W indmill Street. 
Of the nine gentlemen who had united in framing the laws 
and regulations which ,w^re submitted to the general assembly, 
viz. Messrs. Cherry, Rogers, John Field, jun., W. Goodwin, 
Henderson, John Percivall, W. Percivall, James Turner, and 
Youatt, the seven latter remained. Their names are not un¬ 
known to their brethren, and are a sufficient guarantee for the 
propriety of the motives by which they are actuated. 
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