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terest in the doings of the Council. It gains no new strength 
nor vigour as it goes, but we must not now speak out 
all we think, as we have been accustomed to do on a subject 
of this kind. Let us rather hope that in this also we are 
approaching a better order of things—one more worthy of a 
legalised profession. 
We attach hereto a full report of the annual meeting, that 
our readers may be in possession of all that took place. Since 
then the newly constituted Council has met and elected for 
its President, Mr. F. R. Silvester, St. Alban’s, and for its Vice- 
Presidents, Messrs. W. Aitkin, Kilmarnock , Coleman Dray, 
Leeds , M. J. Harpley, Royal Horse Guards Blue , W. Joseph 
Goodwin, Hampton Court , J. Gamgee, Edinburgh , and James 
Kerr, London. 
Our country friends will see by this act that they take their 
full share of the honours which belong to us as a profession. 
This is as it should be. We have in the new President, 
Vhomme necessaire . 
REPORT. 
The seventeenth annual meeting of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons took place on the 6th ult., at the College, 
No. 10, Red Lion Square. Owing to the absence, from 
illness, of the President, J. Wilkinson, Esq., the chair was 
occupied by Professor Spooner. The following members were 
presented:—Messrs. H. Batt, Edw. Braby, T. D. Broad, Jas. 
Broad, Wm. Burley, E. Charles, Wm. Cheesman, John Jas. 
Cheesman, J. M. Clayworth, J. Coleman, F. F. Collins, 
Robt. Cook, R. W. Cowell, W. F. Cross, Chas. Dickens, 
Wm. Ernes, S. F. Faliding, Wm. Field, jun., E. N. Gabriel, 
Professor J. Gamgee, R. Gates, Thos. Greaves, C. W. Gregory, 
Jas. Hall, M. J. Harpley, W. Helmore, John B. Henderson, 
R. L. Hunt, T. Jex, Alfred Large, H. Lepper, Clement Lowe, 
Wm. Mavor, J. McDermott, Jas. Moon, W. Pritchard, 
W. Robinson, R. Leal Shaw, F. R. Silvester, Professor 
Simonds, Edw. Stanley, W. J. Stanley, George Tegg, Walker 
Watson, G. B. Webb, Wm. Wilson, S. H. Withers, Joseph 
Woodger, J. Woodger, jun., Edw. Woodger, and F. W.Wragg. 
The Chairman , in opening the proceedings, after expressing 
his regret at the absence of the President, said the object of 
the meeting was to fill up six vacancies in the Council. Six 
gentlemen, as required by the Charter, retired by rotation, 
