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test the candidate fairly. In the face of what Mr. 
Wilkinson had said, he thought that while the Christmas 
examinations might be a matter for further discussion, the 
question of increasing the fees had better be postponed, and 
he was also rather inclined, from circumstances which had 
come to his knowledge, to recommend that any proposal 
for alteration in the examinations had better be waived for 
the present. 
Mr. Owles said he did not think students rejected by the 
Scotch section of the Board of Examiners had an opportunity, 
equally with the London students, of presenting themselves 
for re-examination at Christmas. [If this was so, they might 
with some justice say that they were placed at a disadvantage. 
During the last few years the Council had done a great deal 
to consolidate the profession and remove all grievances, and 
it was therefore very desirable that all possibility of being 
misunderstood should be done away with. He had never 
heard a complaint made, but the Scotch students might fairly 
make it. 
The President said there were no examinations in Edinburgh 
in December, and it certainly was the cause of some soreness 
with the Scotch schools. 
Professor Simonds said the bye-law distinctly stated that 
there should he an examination at Christmas ; it had, how¬ 
ever, not been asked for by the Scotch schools. 
Mr. Fleming: I am afraid if this examination at Christ¬ 
mas were asked for in Scotland the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons would soon come to grief. I think that 
the one examination is quite sufficient, and that the little 
saving we shall have will go to assist in forwarding the other 
examination. 
Assistant.-Professor Pritchard thought that the sums 
quoted by Mr. Broad rather represented the difference between 
the receipts and the expenditure than the actual loss. At 
the last Christmas examination there was a considerable 
difference between the amount received and the amount 
expended; but he could not see how there could have been 
any loss, because there were exactly twelve men for each 
night, and if they had not been examined last Christmas they 
would have had to come up the following May, and it would 
cost just as much to examine them then as at Christmas. 
Mr. Broad said there were nine students examined, who 
paid, six of them, seven guineas each, and three of them 
three guineas, making a total of £53 11s., while the expenses 
amounted to £80 17s., showing a balance of loss of £27 6s. 
Mr. Wilkinson said if the Christmas examinations were 
