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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Many persons had received a portion of the education of the 
College, and from want of opportunity, or inducement, or 
inclination, had never become members of the body corporate 
-—men who were respected in the places where they lived, 
and with wdiom he was not ashamed to work as a member of 
the College. From having' been to the College they had 
received an insight into the elements of veterinary science, 
and were enjoying the fruits of their labours, receiving an 
income, perhaps, of seven or eight hundred a year. He wished 
to know if such men were to be treated in the same manner 
as those who had never entered the College at all. 
The Chairman said that the committee appointed to 
consider the subject had not made their report to the Council, 
and he was therefore not in a position to answer Mr. 
Helmore’s question. 
Mr. Wilkinson said that he should be sorry if the proceedings 
terminated without a favorable reply being given to the 
question put by Mr. Helmore. As far as he was concerned, 
as a member of the Council, he should be happy to give the 
most liberal construction to the proposition that had been 
advanced. 
Mr. Helmore asked if anything would be communicated to 
the members before the next annual general meeting. 
The Chairman said that every practitioner had had a circular 
sent to him, and that the Council were at all times happy to 
receive suggestions from members of the body corporate as to 
any course which they might think it desirable for the Council 
to pursue. 
Mr. Hues said that it was difficult to know 7 how 7 to deal 
with persons in the position of those mentioned by Mr. 
Helmore. He believed that they ought to be very lenient 
towards them, and the more they could bring to the body 
corporate the better it would be. They were not acting for 
the past, but for the future; and if they went to Parliament 
to obtain an Act making it a misdemeanour for persons to 
practice without the certificate of the College, it might be 
well to provide that those who had been in practice for a 
certain number of years should be allowed a certain time to 
present themselves before the College, so as to be registered 
as members. If they could not obtain an Act to have the 
exclusive privilege of practising, they ought to obtain one 
which would make it a misdemeanour for any person not 
provided with a diploma of the College, or belonging to either 
of the schools, to assume the name of veterinary surgeon, or 
any other name that would lead the public to suppose that 
he was a member of the body corporate. When he spoke of 
