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THE VETERINAEIAN, JUNE 1, 1869. 
Xe quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Ciceeo. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING OE THE MEMBERS OE THE 
VETERINARY PROEESSION. 
History repeats itself, at least we have authority for the 
assertion, and if we had possessed sufficient faith in its ulti¬ 
mate truth to stereotype our remarks on the Annual Meet¬ 
ing in the Veterinarian, June 1, 1868, we might very well 
have spared ourselves the trouble of setting up an article on 
the same subject in the present number, as there was nothing 
new either in the matter discussed or the results which 
were arrived at. Last year we felt constrained to inquire in 
respect of the proceedings of Council, “ What has been 
done and again the question forces itself upon our atten¬ 
tion, urgently, but in vain. Year after year the Council 
holds quarterly and special meetings, always in accordance 
with the provisions of the Charter, discusses important sub¬ 
jects connected with the political, scientific, and social wel¬ 
fare of the profession, and publishes an annual report for 
the edification of the body corporate. 
At the annual meeting it is customary for the proceed¬ 
ings of Council to be censured more or less severely by one 
of themselves, and even the construction of the report is gene¬ 
rally criticised by a member of the committee appointed to 
draw it up. Some half-dozen of the members of the profession 
follow suit, a sort of cross-examination of imaginary wit¬ 
nesses is kept up for a short time, and the meeting proceeds 
to what seems to be the real business of the day—and for 
the conduct of which many members travel hundreds of 
miles— namely, the election of six members of Council in place 
of those retiring by rotation; and as most of the retiring 
members are re-elected, the amount of work actually done is 
not quite in proportion to the trouble involved. 
What the feeling of the profession may be on any one of 
the points which are brought forward for discussion may be 
