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then would I have been liable, and no doubt rightly, to the 
of some of the more enlightened part of the profession. 
“No one can be too old to learn, or so wise as to need no instruction.” —Solon. 
There is a paper in your Journal for April last, by Mr. May- 
liew, which attracted my attention, the perusal of which suggested 
to my mind the following short remark:— 
I have both thought and seen that too many of our College emi¬ 
grants, when placed in practice in the country, and called on to 
treat the diseases incident to our domesticated animals, are not the 
men pro bono publico. 
But how can the stream flow clear when the fountain whence it 
proceeds is from all appearances so muddy ? 
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FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
On Monday the 7th of May, the Fifth Annual Meeting of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was held at the Free¬ 
masons’ Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, at which 
about forty of the leading members of the profession were present. 
At half-past one o’clock, Mr. Turner , the President, having been 
called to the chair, 
Mr. Cherry rose to address the Meeting, but was stopped by 
The President, who said that was not the time for Mr. Cherry 
to bring forward the matter about which he wished to speak. 
Mr. A. Cherry said, that having been informed that at the 
previous Annual Meeting persons were present and voted who 
were not members of the body corporate [hear'], he begged to 
request that any gentleman present who had not signed the list 
would sign his name immediately, when it would be seen if any 
other persons were present. 
Mr. Gabriel, the Secretary, then commenced reading the 
Minutes of the previous Annual Meeting, and, on coming to that 
portion of the proceedings relating to the election of the six mem¬ 
bers of Council, 
Professor Spooner said, on that occasion, his name and that 
of Mr. Mayhew’s were placed upon the list of members eligible to 
be elected as members of the Council, when those who put them 
there well knew that they were not eligible, and that, if they were 
