856 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Council to deal with the Edinburgh College only would be 
illegal, and that all motions affecting the students would of 
course extend to every teaching school. If exception was 
' taken to the word “ Edinburgh,” and his motion was to be 
thrown out upon that, he would at once withdraw it, and 
give a fresh notice of motion for the next meeting. When 
the memorial was drawn up he took exception to the word 
“ Edinburgh” being there; but Professor Dewar, who had 
prepared the draft, said that he looked upon the latter portion 
of the paragraph as applying to the students of all the teach¬ 
ing schools. He would take the opinion of the Council 
whether he could bring this motion before them, intending 
it to apply to the students of all the teaching schools. 
Professor Brown did not pretend to know what motives 
might have actuated Professor Dewar in drawing up this 
memorial, but he had a strong impression that it was entirely 
incompetent for the staff of any of the teaching colleges to 
ask the Council to legislate for the conduct of the whole of 
them. He read the memorial as being distinctly applicable 
to the students of the Veterinary College in Edinburgh. No 
doubt the propositions were, at least in principle, desirable 
ones. It was very important that they should have some 
rearrangement of the system of examination and probably 
of the system of teaching, but he confessed he did not at all 
perceive how this change could possibly be effected without 
radical alteration in the arrangement of our sessional course 
of instruction. The transference of the examinations to 
July would be rather a serious matter, certainly for the 
students of the London College. 
As the matter now stood, if the proposition was to apply 
to the whole of the colleges he apprehended it was not 
competent for the Council to discuss the question until 
they had an application from the principals of each of the 
colleges. 
Professor Simonds said it was not his intention to discuss 
this matter now, because he held a very strong opinion that 
the Council could not entertain any matter affecting the 
bye-laws of the College without due notice being given. He 
had been in no way consulted with regard to this proposal; 
but he did not complain of this, for such a step would have 
been premature as the motion now stood. He agreed most 
fully with many of the remarks made by Professor Brown 
that they could not think of altering the time of holding 
the examinations unless, in fact, it was altered so as to 
make the teaching in the several schools correspond with 
it. An entirely new arrangement must certainly be made 
