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Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The Annual General Meeting was this year but thinly-at¬ 
tended, and, but for the dinner by which it was succeeded, would 
have passed off rather tamely. There was a question, however, 
raised at it of no small moment to the veterinary profession ; a 
question which one would have thought had been settled long 
ago, since it not only forms a prominent feature in the Charter 
of the Royal College, but has since had £129 expended on 
bringing it before Parliament; to say nothing about the exer¬ 
tions which have been made in its behalf by Council, and sundry 
members of the College within their respective spheres of prac¬ 
tice in the country. The Royal Charter contains the following 
clauses on the subject:—“ That owing to our said Petitioners 
(for the said Charter) not participating in the privileges and 
exemptions which have been granted to the medical and other 
professions, much injury has arisen to themselves in the course 
of practice, as well as to their employers;—That, our said Pe¬ 
titioners are so fully occupied in the discharge of the duties of 
their profession, and they are so continually at the call of the 
public, as to be very ill qualified to discharge, with due regard 
to the interests of the public, the parochial and other services 
which the law at present enforces upon them; and that, con¬ 
sidering the progress already made in the advancement of the 
veterinary art by the superior education and attainments of ve¬ 
terinary practitioners, our said Petitioners humbly submit that 
considerable advantages would accrue to our subjects generally 
by enabling our said Petitioners, and others constituting the body 
of veterinary surgeons, to possess privileges from which they 
have been hitherto excluded,” &c. 
The debate at the meeting left no doubt whatever of the feel¬ 
ing on the point under discussion of those present; nor do we 
believe there exists any other feeling among the members of the 
profession in general; indeed, if there were, those who framed 
