LATE VETERINARY MEETINGS. 377 
nents of the members as a body: for, although the invitation 
ertainly was general , the presentees were comparatively but few; 
nd there appeared reason to believe that neither timely notice 
or sufficient advertisement of the meeting had been given to in¬ 
ure a much more numerous attendance. So far as regards the 
ingle act of convening the members, the meeting was well con- 
eived; but it has turned out most completely abortive in its 
peration; and its failure is to be ascribed, in our opinion, to 
hree causes :—to the insufficiency of the chairmen; to the limited 
lumber of members present, the majority of whom were party- 
aen; and to the admission, or rather recognition, of persons who 
vere not members, and who, consequently, ought, under every 
onsideration, to have been held disqualified from taking any part 
whatever in the proceedings. It was the duty of the chairmen, 
o have stood aloof from every party; to have avoided as much 
is possible influencing either party; and certainly not to have 
ixpressed any opinion whatever of their own until the questions 
lad been fairly and fully discussed; and, above all, to have in- 
;isted on the preservation of order, and on a patient and full 
learing being given to every member in his turn who chose to 
tddress the meeting. Had any thing like a general assembly of 
he profession been present, the petty parties which created so 
nuch disturbance and bad feeling, must have sunk into insig- 
nficance ; and had the actual proceedings been confined to mem- 
1 hers , and members only, we should probably not have had to record 
>uch barbarous, Billingsgate language in the shape of speeches. 
^s it was, just to show what a precious business has been made 
dtogether of the cause, we subjoin a schedule of the resolutions 
)f the Anti and Pro-Collegiates; which will give our readers an 
opportunity of contrasting the proceedings of the two parties 
with each other, and at the same time enable them to form some 
notion of the value to be set upon either. For our own part, we 
cannot help feeling more than ordinary joy at seeing how com¬ 
pletely one party has been met by the other; how fully equal 
has been the alkali to the saturation of the acid ; and how perfect 
the neutralization and nullification has been on both sides. 
