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give themselves up to the judgment of the profession at large, 
assured that they could have no better criterion for the govern¬ 
ment of their conduct. 
Mr. You ATT suggested the propriety of having something like 
, a veterinary club established among the practitioners of London 
and its environs, to be held, at stated nights, at some respec¬ 
table house; which, he was sure, would encourage good feeling 
and fellowship, and, in all probability, be the cause of something 
more important to the profession. 
After many other toasts, and the conviviality of the party 
having been protracted to a late hour, the meeting broke up. 
ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING OF THE 
VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
Held at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Monday, April 27, 
1829. 
ON Wednesday last, the General Meeting of Practitioners took 
place. 
Professor Coleman, on being unanimously called to the chair, 
thus addressed the meeting:— 
Gentlemen, I shall open this business by stating what I did 
when I had last the honour of meeting you. There were two 
questions, I then observed, that appeared to agitate the veteri¬ 
nary profession : quite distinct questions ; the first was, whether 
it was desirable that there should be an alteration in the examin¬ 
ing medical committee, and that if an alteration were requisite, whe¬ 
ther the alteration should consist of three veterinary surgeons be¬ 
ing elected by the veterinary surgeons of this metropolis and ten 
miles around it (or, if deemed proper, elected by the whole body of 
veterinary surgeons), to be added to the examining medical com¬ 
mittee; or, whether it would be preferable to have a separate 
examining committee, consisting of a greater number of veteri¬ 
narians ? Therefore I beg leave to ascertain, first (which I think 
will be the most regular way of proceeding), whether any alter¬ 
ation be requisite in the present examining medical committee ? 
I shall endeavour to do my duty in this chair, and to hear every 
gentleman who may be desirous of addressing the meeting; but I 
think it will be desirable that those gentlemen should speak once 
only on the subject, and merely in explanation a second time. 
I think no gentleman should speak more than once, further than 
