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HISTORY OP THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
apply to the president, vice-presidents, and directors, to request 
five or more of them to be trustees for accepting a lease of the 
ground from Lord Camden. 
September 27.—Letters were received from nine of the above 
gentlemen, approving of the situation for the college, and con¬ 
senting to become trustees. Mr. Burton was requested, in 
conjunction with Mr. Sain Bel, to prepare and lay before a future 
meeting, a plan of a building for the college; and Mr. Burton 
was also requested to superintend any temporary erection or 
alteration in the premises engaged for the college. 
October 4.—An advertisement was ordered to be inserted in 
the papers, containing the terms on which the professor’s lectures 
would be delivered at the college. 
November 1.— The secretary was directed to send abstracts of 
the proposed regulations of the college to the proprietors of the 
stage coaches.—An advertisement was ordered to be inserted in 
the papers, directing persons desirous of becoming resident pupils 
to apply to the committee. 
December 6.—A general meeting was held; the number of 
members was reported to be 179. Mr. Burton produced a plan 
for the college. It was resolved, that a collector to the college 
should be chosen. A letter from Dr. J. Corrie was read, offering 
his services to the college, during* his stay in the East Indies, in 
collecting information on the veterinary science; when, on the 
motion of Mr. J. Hunter, he was elected an honorary and corre¬ 
sponding member. 
December 13.—It was resolved, that peers, members of par¬ 
liament, and ladies, should be allowed to vote by proxy at all 
elections. The professor informed the committee that he should 
commence his lectures on the 4th of January. 
January 3, 1792.—A general meeting was held; the number 
of members was reported to be 204. Mr. Reuben Smith was 
chosen collector. At this time there were four pupils in the 
college. 
January 10.—Mr. Arthur Young and Mr. Marshall were elected 
honorary and corresponding members. 
February 14,—Mr. Baynes, Mr. Penn, and Mr. Stone, were 
appointed a committee to examine the accounts, and pay all 
demands on the college. On account of the great number of 
applications made to the professor to receive diseased horses, it 
was directed to be advertised, that there were not conveniences 
for the purpose; but that, as soon as stables were erected, proper 
notice would be given. 
» February 21.—A general meeting was held; the number of 
members w as reported to be 233. It w ; as resolved, that the 
