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should be made subservient to the more urgent necessities for gene¬ 
ral benefit. He was of opinion that the professors should not in 
any way be mixed up with the Board of Examiners, but give their 
unaided attention to the education of the student. He would with¬ 
draw the suggestion he had previously made with regard to an 
apprenticeship being enforced, with the proviso that, if a student 
on admission at the college could not produce a certificate of prac¬ 
tical efficiency from a veterinary surgeon, he should be required to 
attend an additional session and receive special practical instruc¬ 
tion. 
Mr. Wallet/ deprecated the method now adopted at many of the 
colleges of teaching the practical duties. He considered the pupils 
should be required to perform all the minor operations and other 
general manipulations upon the infirmary patients there. 
Mr. Gibson endorsed the former speaker’s opinions, but con¬ 
sidered that the working of the proposed beneficial changes would 
depend upon the character of the parliamentary bill whieh had to 
be tacked on to the Charter. Students at the College of Surgeons 
were obliged to “walk the hospitals,”jbecomepractically acquainted 
with the duties due to their patients, thus doing away with the neces¬ 
sity of an apprenticeship. Compared with the mode of teaching 
adopted at the Continental veterinary schools ours was very deficient. 
He suggested that a memorial be presented to the Governors of the 
College todnvest the Council with increased powers, that the Council 
thus armed should send a visiting committee to see that the students 
are efficiently taught. On the subject of literary education he 
advocated one of high class, supporting his argument by compari¬ 
sons in favour of foreign veterinary literature to that of this country. 
He considered the time employed in testing the proficiency of can¬ 
didates for the diploma very insufficient. 
The President said the Charter in its present state was of very 
little use ; it did not give necessary control to those who had the 
greatest interest in the well-being of the profession, yet he should 
not like the voices of the Professors to be silenced on the educa¬ 
tional question, but he wished to conciliate them and smooth the path 
for them and the Council to tread together. 
The President of the Liverpool Microscopical Society having 
kindly invited the members to view some objects of anatomical 
interest which were being then demonstrated in the theatre of the 
institution, an adjournment was made. The members were gratified 
by seeing some good specimens of dental and osseous tissues. 
On reassembling, 
Mr. W. C. Lawson introduced the subject of breakdown, and ex¬ 
hibited the fore legs of an aged horse used for harness purposes. He 
stated that the horse, whilst at walking exercise on turf, with a light 
weight upon his back, suddenly fell, and upon examination it was 
found that comminuted fracture of both sesamoid bones in each fore¬ 
leg had taken place. Mr. Lawson thought it was a very unusual 
case, and one deserving to be brought before the association ; he 
could give no previous history of the case likely to elucidate the 
