600 MEDICAL EXAMINERS AT VETERINARY BOARDS. 
sions are conducted, and whateach speaker has to say on the 
different subjects brought before the Council. No member 
should think himself privileged to say at these meetings what 
he would not choose to say to the profession at large; only 
at a secret committee of the Council should secrecy he 
observed. 
As matters are at present conducted with regard to these 
reports, members of Council are frequently placed in a false 
or ludicrous position, and the profession can have but the 
faintest idea of the business transacted or the opinions ex¬ 
pressed at their parliament; hence councilmen and non- 
councilmen are placed in an unsatisfactory, sometimes in 
even an antagonistic attitude towards each other. I certainly 
have found myself in this position more than once, and it 
appears am in it again. 
As one who joined in the discussion in favour of some con¬ 
sideration being shown to the claims of the profession to pro¬ 
vide examiners from its own ranks, what I am reported to 
have said is but a portion of what I did say, the most im¬ 
portant part being omitted in the report. I observe that the 
same has occurred with the remarks of other speakers. 
The discussion certainly was not very animated; but few 
spoke, and those who did were pretty evenly divided. No 
motion or division took place, for the simple reason that a 
bye-law stood in the way; though I daresay the majority 
would have been against the election of any more medical 
men unconnected with the veterinary profession, had the 
matter proceeded so far. 
What I have now to complain of, however, is the position 
I am placed in with regard to what I said at the meeting, 
and what has been said for me in the “ leading article ” just 
alluded to. As a co-editor of the Vetermarian, I have been 
informed that, in addition to the share I have in the literary 
work of the journal, I must also share the responsibility of 
the opinions expressed by the other editors (the share-holding , 
unfortunately, does not go beyond this). In the present 
instance it causes me much pain to decline this responsibility; 
inasmuch as I am ever anxious that harmony should reign in 
our ranks, and I always differ from my colleagues with 
regret. But I cannot acquiesce in sentiments which do the 
profession an injustice, nor coincide in opinions which, in 
addition to their being entirely opposed to those I hold, 
would seem to reflect discredit on its members. What I said 
at the Council meeting, and what is written in the “ leader 39 
referred to, are utterly incompatible. Having expressed my ¬ 
self in all sincerity, and with a full conviction of the respon- 
