ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 351 
tion, however, from the duties of the office only continued 
until a deputation waited on him to explain the affair. 
The Registrar’s report announces fourteen deaths as having 
occurred during the past year. Among the deceased are 
more specially to be regretted the late Mr. King, who had 
most efficiently filled the offices of Vice-President, Treasurer, 
and member of the Council; Mr. Williamson, one of the 
original members of the Scotch division of the Board of 
Examiners, and the veteran Mr. Watts, who was a Vice- 
President in 1847. 
The admissions during the year have been thirty-three; the 
students being all from the London school. The number 
of members now on the list is 1416. 
A new edition of the Register has been issued, and as far 
as the very imperfect information obtained from the body at 
large will admit of, it has been corrected up to the date of 
publication. As changes, however, are constantly taking 
place, and old errors have not yet all been eradicated, it is to 
be hoped that the profession at large will kindly aid the 
Registration Committee in remedying the defects. 
The Council have still to regret that no distinctive rights 
have yet been conceded to the Veterinary Profession. Her 
Majesty’s services, both at home and in India, are still as 
freely open to the unregistered and unrecognised as to the 
registered and unrecognised members of the profession. The 
imposts of petty taxation, the exclusion from privileges 
granted to other but certainly not more deserving bodies, 
are evils which it is fervently hoped will ere long cease to 
exist. 
E. N. Gabriel, 
Secretary . 
