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being passed through the House, and that this opinion be 
laid before the Council at their next meeting.”—Carried. 
It was moved by Mr. IFilkiuson, and seconded by Mr. 
Jex — 
^^That this meeting be adjourned sine die for the reception 
of the Counsers opinion.”—Carried. 
Moved by Mr. JFilkinson, and seconded by Mr. Bohinson — 
^‘That the examination of candidates for the diploma of 
the Royal College, should take place during the Christmas 
week.”—Carried. 
By order of the Council, 
William Henry Coates, 
Secretary, 
AVEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
Resolutions submitted and agreed to at a meeting of 
the AA^est of Scotland A^eterinary Medical Association, held 
in the Mechanics’ Institute, Glasgow, on 21st October—■ 
Mr. Robinson, A^.S., Greenock, in the Chair. 
1. That the members of the Association participating in 
the interest excited in the public mind, by statements that 
have appeared of late in the public journals relating to the 
sale of diseased meat—-that from the daily duties and profes¬ 
sional avocations leading them to where disease in animals 
exists, and to a knowledge of the disposal of diseased stock, 
from the opportunities thus afforded, they flatter themselves 
that they are in a position to form an opinion on this ques¬ 
tion; they therefore have no hesitation in saying that the 
extent to which this traffic is carried on has been much 
exaggerated. 
2. That this meeting views with repugnance the idea of 
the flesh of animals dying or slaughtered in the last stage of 
disease being used as human food. They cannot overlook 
the fact, that in rural districts, from time immemorial, it has 
been the practice to use as food animals that may have died 
suddenly or from accident when’such animals were in good 
condition, and the carcases properly prepared, and of animals 
slaughtered in the incipient stage of disease; and they con¬ 
sider that when such an enlightened and scientific bod}^ as 
the medical profession (the close and rigid investigators into 
the cause of disease) have never attributed the consump¬ 
tion of such meat as being the cause of any disease, they 
