364 llOYAL COLLEGE OE VETElllNAllY SUllGEOxNS. 
ill wliicli the minutes were sent to the Veterinarian for 
publication. 
The Chairman said that was a question which could not 
be discussed without notice. If the Council wished to hear 
what Mr. Wilkinson had to say before proceeding with the 
regular business of the meeting, well and good; but the 
question must be put on the agenda. 
Mr. Wilkinson said—the statement which he wished to 
bring before tbe attention of the Council as having been made 
at the last meeting according to the way in which it had fallen 
upon his ear and upon tlie ear of the reporter was to this 
effect, that the examiners were inferior to their duty. Now, 
the Board of Examiners was composed of different classes. 
There were the most eminent of the medical world sitting 
upon the Board to whom the remark could not of course apply. 
There were other examiners selected on account of their prac¬ 
tical ability who officiated in Scotland, and he did not think the 
remark could apply to them. Therefore it became confined 
to the few members of the Board who had the honour of 
sitting in that room to examine. Those members were six in 
number. Some of them were now present, and of course they 
could do what they pleased in this matter ; but he felt himself 
in a very peculiar position. He was not only a member of 
this Board of Examiners, but also a member of a board which 
held examinations at Woolwich under the authority of the 
War Office. Now, if he was not fit to examine the pupils that 
were brought before this Board in London or in Edinburgh, 
he was not fit to examine the pupils at Woolwich. What 
made the assertion, or rather accusation, more remarkable 
was that the President and every member of the Council gave 
a tacit assent to it. That was what he felt most; and on 
this account, if he had not been over-persuaded by some of 
his friends, he should have felt it his duty to send in his re¬ 
signation at once as a member of this Board. The examina¬ 
tions, however, were close at hand, and it would be, perhaps, 
rather an awkward thing to cease just at this period; but 
unless the Council would vindicate its own Board, which 
it had itself elected, by passing a resolution, or something 
of that sort, to show that it was satisfied, he did not see 
what any member of the Board could do otherwise than 
resign. 
Professor Brown said he was as desirous as Mr. Wilkinson 
could possibly be to vindicate the position of the Board of 
Examiners, but he was decidedly impressed with the idea that 
Mr. Wilkinson’s feeling arose from misapprehension in some 
measure. He believed the words used were The examina- 
