IRIS FI CEiN TRAL VETERliNARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’. 375 
“ The members of the North of England Veterinary Medical 
Association, by resolution adopted at their meeting on the 16th of 
April, respectfully suggest to the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons that one mode of advancing the educational 
and scientific status of the profession is to institute examinations, 
written as well as oral, more comprehensive in character and more 
extended as to time than they are at present. Further, they beg 
to suggest that an examination for honours, conferring an) extra 
professional dignity on those who attain them, would be of 
great advantage, and an inducement for men of high attainments 
to enter the profession. ” 
John Mickle, Hon. Sec. 
[Mr. Hunting’s paper “ On Veterinary Education ” contains 
many remarks which, however well intended, would give personal 
offence; hence we feel compelled to decline to publish it.] 
IRISH CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
A LARGE and influential meeting of the members of the veterinary 
profession in Ireland took place in the committee-room of the Royal 
Dublin Society, Kildare Street, Dublin, at 7 p.m. on the 5th inst. 
Several members of the medical profession interested in the advance¬ 
ment of veterinary science in Ireland were present. 
Too great praise cannot be given to the Council of the Royal 
Dublin Society and its eflicient secretary, Dr. Steele, for their 
assistance and support in carrying out the laudable objects of the 
meeting. That Society has veterinary progress at heart, and every¬ 
thing has been done on its part which could be done for the 
furtherance and success of the meeting. The earnest efforts of 
Mr. Greaves and Mr. Whittle (of Manchester) will be ever gratefully 
remembered by the members of the association. Such generosity 
and perseverance surely should arouse the apathetic members of the 
veterinary profession. 
3fr. W. Murphy addressed the meeting as follows : 
Gentlemen,—It affords me no small degree of pleasure to have 
the privilege of first addressing you on this interesting and, I may 
add, auspicious occasion, more particularly when I inform you of 
my being deputed to move to the chair a gentleman long known, 
and highly esteemed and respected by me, and I am sure by many 
of you, as a distinguished and valued member of our profession, 
who has come with one other professional gentlemen from Man¬ 
chester, specially to aid us in our first step towards tlie establish¬ 
ment of a Veterinary Medical iVssociation in dear old Ireland. The 
idea of this association originated with my friend, Mr. F. F. Collins, 
Royal Dragoons, who has taken no small degree of trouble in bring- 
