4i3 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
Some discussion ensued in reference to the reports sent to 
the Veterinarian. 
It was decided hy the Council that the minutes should in 
future he kept distinct from the reports furnished to the 
Veterinarian, which were to be submitted to a Committee 
previous to publication. 
The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Dunsmure, giving an 
account of the recent examinations held in Edinburgh, and 
asking for the opinion of the Council as to whether two 
candidates, holding the Highland and Agricultural Society’s 
certificates (which they had received since the suspension of 
the Bye-Laws by the Council) were entitled to a return of a 
portion of the examination fees ])aid on their presenting them¬ 
selves before the Board of Examiners. 
Deference having been made to the minute-hook, it was 
found that the terms of the resolution limited its ajiplicatiou 
to persons who were at that time possessed of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society’s certificate. 
The Secretary was instructed to reply accordingly. * 
Professor Spooner desired to make a few remarks upon an 
important subject. The President had that day called upon 
him and placed in his hands the ‘ Pharmacy Act Amendment 
Bill.’ He had before him the charter of the Pharmaceutical 
Society and its bye-laws. This charter placed that society 
in a similar position to the Doyal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, whose charter stated that all parties who had 
subscribed to the rules therein laid down should exclusively 
of all others be entitled to designate themselves veterinary 
surgeons and members of the body corporate. The Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, however, succeeded in getting in addition 
to their charter an Act which rendered any person punish¬ 
able who falsely assumed the title of Member of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society. Such an Act the Doyal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons had never got. 
Well, last year an Act to regulate the sale of poisons 
and alter and amend the Pharmacy x\ct was passed, and 
in one of its clauses it stated that “Nothing hereinbefore 
contained shall extend to or interfere with the business of 
any legally qualified apothecary, or of any Member of the 
Doyal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain,” &c., 
so that it rendered any individual punishable who should sell 
poisons or vend tliem or use them if he were not a Member 
of the Doyal College of Veterinary Surgeons. When his 
attention was first called to this clause he felt much gratified. 
