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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
The fifteenth annual meeting of the members was held at 
the College, Red Lion Square, on Monday afternoon, May 
2 d, to receive the report of the Council, and to fill up the 
vacancies in that body. 
In the absence of Professor Spooner, the President, Mr. 
Greaves, Vice-President, was called to the chair. 
The following members were present, Messrs. R. Bowles, 
Burley, Bailey, Bailey junr., Bickford, Broad, Braby, 
Cooper, Cherry, Cheesman, Cheesman junr., Charles, 
Cornelius, Corby, Dickens, Dobson, Dawson, Dring, Ernes, 
Field, Gamgee senr., Good, Greaves, Holl, Helmore, Holt, 
Haire, Hack, Henderson, Jex, Lawson, Lines, Lowe, Legrew, 
Morton, Meginnis, Molliner, Moon, Martin, Pritchard, 
Robinson, South, Siinonds, Turner, Tremlett, Withers, 
Wilson, Woodger, Woodger junr., and Wilkinson. 
Mr. Gabriel , the Secretary, having read the advertisement 
convening the meeting, the minutes of the last annual meet¬ 
ing were then read, and the following abstract of the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Council during the year 1858-9 : 
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons during the year 1858-9. 
The proceedings of the Council during the past year have 
been so few, that a very abridged statement only will be 
necessary. 
The reduction of expenses in the various departments of 
the College still continues without any appearance of a 
reaction, or of any compensatory substitution for it. It is, 
however, consolatory to a certain extent to find that at 
present there is but a small reduction of the balance in the 
Treasurer’s hands; its amount, after defraying the expenses 
of the year, being £226 7s. 3d. 
A subject which has received a considerable amount of the 
attention of the Council has been the endeavour to obtain the 
recognition by the College of a new veterinary school, estab¬ 
lished by Mr. John Gamgee in Edinburgh. To do so, how¬ 
ever, it was necessary that Her Most Gracious Majesty’s sign 
manual should be first obtained. This question appears to 
have been before the Government for some time; for, in 
