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in giving’ an explanation, or in reply. I believe that is usual in 
most discussions ; however, that will be for your determination. 
With your permission, then, I shall ascertain, in the first place, 
whether it is your opinion that any alteration should take place 
in the present examining committee. 
Mr. W. Percivall rose, and thus spoke :— 
There can scarcely be two opinions, I apprehend, on the ques¬ 
tion which you, sir, as the chairman of the present meeting, have 
just stated; but I beg leave, before I enter into that question, 
to say, that I hope this meeting will only be considered as the 
first of others, respecting the affairs on which we are now met— 
the first of a series of meetings ; and the resolution which will 
be presently proposed to you, the first of a series of resolutions, 
tending to redress and remove the grievances and indignities un¬ 
der which we labour. How many of the important questions 
that now agitate the profession may be disposed of to-night, it is 
impossible at present to determine: it will depend on the time 
occupied by the discussion of each; but I beg to have it under¬ 
stood, that our meetings do not terminate with this evening. 
Professor Coleman. —Sir, with submission to you, that will 
have to be the subject of future enquiry. The meeting at pre¬ 
sent has no reference to any thing further than what I have 
stated. Whether there should be another meeting, or other meet¬ 
ings, is not at present in point of order; what we are to enquire 
into, in point of order as the first question, is that which I have 
stated. We are met this evening upon specific business; and, at 
all events, we must go through with that business in the first in¬ 
stance. If there is other business to come before the meeting, I, 
at least, have not been acquainted with it. I come here ex¬ 
pressly for the purpose of tendering my services upon the ques¬ 
tions I have already alluded to. If there are any questions that 
are to precede those which I understood were to occupy the 
attention of the meeting, such questions may have reference to 
myself; and in that case, certainly, I am not entitled to sit here. 
My services were merely tendered to convey your memorials, 
should you think it proper to have them presented, to the examin¬ 
ing medical committee, and also to the governors; and to use 
what influence I might have in carrying your wishes into effect: 
any thing else I know nothing of. 
Mr. Cherry. —The subject was opened at a veiy late period at 
the last meeting, after several toasts had been drunk, several 
songs sung, and our hilarity had proceeded to a considerable ex¬ 
tent. Mr. Coleman then made a speech, which embraced two 
heads; one was the constitution of the examining committee,— 
the other was the non-eligibility of veterinary surgeons to be sub- 
