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NEW MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
At a meeting of the Court of Examiners, held at the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, on Wednesday, December 
the 17 th, 1862, the following students of the Royal Veterinary 
College passed their examinations : 
Rupert Mosley, London. 
' Joseph Thomas Bushman, Curragh Camp, Ireland. 
James Worsley, Worsley, Lancashire. 
John Joseph Sperring, Barnet, Herts. 
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS BY VETERINARY 
SURGEONS OF THE HORSES SHOWN AT THE 
MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
At a special meeting of the Council held on Wednesday, 
December 10th, Lord Walsingham in the chair, Mr. Fisher 
Hobbs, as chairman of the Special Committee appointed on 
the subject of the veterinary examinations of horses, pre¬ 
sented the report, which recommended, in the first place, 
that the preliminary examination by a local veterinary 
surgeon be dispensed with. 
Secondly, that the horses sent for exhibition should be 
examined within the showyard, and that such animals as did 
not pass should be placarded as excluded from competition. 
After a long discussion, in which Mr. Fisher Hobbs stated 
that such members of the Committee as were present w'ere 
by no means unanimous as to the recommendations in this 
report, he went on to move that the preliminary examination 
be continued, and that a proper form of certificate be pre¬ 
pared by the veterinary committee, and filled up by a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon residing in the district where the entry w^as 
made. 
On a division, it was found that twelve members of 
Council voted for the motion, and twelve against it, when 
the chairman gave his vote against the report of the Com¬ 
mittee, and in favour of Mr. Fisher Hobbs’s motion, which 
was carried accordingly. 
