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THE VETERIFAEIAN, MAY 1, 1869. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
THE PUBLICATION OE REPORTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF 
COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY 
SURGEONS. 
People like to know what their representatives are doing, 
whether in the council chamber of the nation or in the 
more restricted area of the meeting room belonging to a 
corporation, and they are quite right to want to know who 
is active and who passive, who speaks and who remains 
silent. 
Mr. Hunt, of Birmingham, spoke strongly at the last 
quarterly meeting of council on behalf of those members of 
the profession who are located at a distance from the me¬ 
tropolis, and who can only know anything of the proceedings 
of council from the reports which appear from time to time 
in our pages—reports which Mr. Hunt described as meagre 
in the extreme; not more so, he admitted, recently than 
they formerly were, but always inadequate to meet the 
wishes of those who are anxiously waiting to learn what has 
been done for the advancement of the profession, and what 
account its delegates have to give of themselves. During 
the discussion of the subject there was a general expression 
of opinion that the published reports of proceedings were in 
effect neither reports nor minutes; that there never had 
been any satisfactory reports sent forth; and that it was 
time to take steps to insure for the future the publication 
of a record of the meetings of the representatives of the 
profession sufficiently comprehensive in details to convey to 
members the information which they have sought in vain in 
the reports of council proceedings, as they have hitherto 
appeared in the veterinary periodicals. 
We have nothing to urge against the principle which is 
thus asserted, nothing to oppose to the course which was 
adopted in order to carry the principle into effect forth- 
