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MISCELLANEA. 
Finances of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
FROM a report recently published (by authority) it appears that 
the receipts and expenditure of the College of Surgeons, from 
the 30th June 1847, to the 30th June 1848, were, of the former, 
£9562.. 10s.. 10c?.; of the latter, £9468..5s..9d (exclusive of the 
amount required for the purchase of Alderman Copeland’s pre¬ 
mises, which, with the expenses of conveyance, reached the sum of 
£16,341..10s..2^.). The receipts were derived from the following 
sources:— 
The Court of Examiners .... £7796 7 0 
Fees on the admission of Fellows . . . 220 10 0 
Fees on the admission of the Council and Court 
of Examiners . . . . . . 21 0 0 
Dividends on investments in Government securi¬ 
ties ........ 1492 17 10 
Sale of Lists of Members and of Catalogues . 31 16 0 
£9562 10 10 
Sale of Diseased Cattle.— Important Decision. 
Archibald Turnbull, Esq., of Bell wood, having bought a lot of 
stots from Mr. Fenton, farmer and cattle-dealer at Foldend, by 
Forfar, on last Dundee September market, one of which proved 
to be diseased with pleuro-pneumonia, and died ten or eleven 
days after the said purchase ; an action was raised by Mr. Turn- 
bull for recovery of the purchase-money, before the Sheriff Court 
in Forfar; when, after a proof being led on both sides of the case, 
the Sheriff decided that the pursuer had proved his case, princi¬ 
pally on the evidence of Mr. Sidney, veterinary surgeon, Pitcairn- 
green, Perthshire, who dissected the animal, and gave decreet in 
his favour accordingly. Parties having diseased cattle ought, there¬ 
fore, to be cautious how they offer such for sale in future. We 
believe this is the first case of the kind which has been tried in 
this quarter .—Perth Courier. 
Memorandum. 
At the request of the Secretary we insert the following:— 
In the Council Report for January 19, 1849, at page 115, 
lines 27, 28, 29, read, “ The Secretary having been called on by 
the President to bring forward any propositions he may have 
to offer in connexion with the motion he had given, declined, 
under the circumstances of the case, at present doing so.” 
