ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
An adjourned meeting of the Council was held on the 5th 
June, 186l, 
Present :—The new President, Mr. Silvester in the chair. 
Professors Spooner, Simonds, and Varnell, Messrs. Wil¬ 
kinson, Withers, Ernes, Jex, Moon, Gamgee, Harpley, 
Barrow, Robinson, Field, and Braby. 
A letter from Mr. E. N. Gabriel having been read, tender¬ 
ing his resignation of Secretary, it was proposed by Mr. Field , 
and seconded by Mr. Gamgee , that Mr. Gabriel's resignation 
be accepted. 
Professor Spooner proposed, and Mr. Ernes seconded, a 
motion, '‘That Mr. Braby be appointed Secretary pro tem.” 
Upon the ballot being taken, he was declared to be unani¬ 
mously elected. 
Proposed by Mr. Field, seconded by Mr. Wilkinson , “ That 
the thanks of the Council be given to Mr. Gabriel for his 
valuable services for many years as its Secretary.” Carried 
unanimously. 
Mr. Wilkinson returned thanks to the Members of the 
Council for the courteous manner in which he had been 
treated by them during his year of office as President, and 
for the compliment they had been pleased to pay him by 
voting him their thanks. 
E. Braby, 
Secretary pro tem. 
MEETING OE COUNCIL, held June 12, 1861. 
A meeting of Council was held this day, 
Present :—The President in the chair, Professor Spooner, 
M essrs. Broad, Mavor, Wilkinson, Withers, Hunt, 
Dickens, Jex, Robinson, Field, and Braby. 
A letter from Professor Gamgee was read, accompanied 
with a list of the members of the Body Corporate, which was 
ordered to be laid before the registration committee. 
Agreeably to the notice of motion given at the last 
meeting by Professor Simonds, a committee was appointed 
to take into consideration the duties of, and the salary to be 
paid to, the Secretary of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. 
E. Braby, 
Secretary 'pro tem. 
