VETERINARY BENEVOLENT AND DEFENCE SCCIETY. 471 
sweetens labour; that is quite true, but if these gentlemen had to 
fold up and address 500 circulars once or twice every year, 
fold up and address 140 or 150 notices a time or two every 
year, write sometimes fifteen or seventeen letters of a night after 
a hard day’s work, they would find that labour is labour even 
when all is done for love. I ask you in all earnestness to send 
rne your names—you who have generous impulses and who are 
able and willing to do good ; I must thank every man who has ren¬ 
dered us assistance hitherto, and at the same time I am much 
concerned and pained to have to complain of great numbers of 
members, who, after having led us to believe they were in earnest 
for the good of the Society, have withheld their subscriptions from 
us; many of them, I would fain think, only for want of a little 
thought. There are fifty-seven members who have allowed themselves 
to become out of benefit; they owe £125 8s. 6d.; they have been 
applied to repeatedly. I should be glad if you will say what is the 
best course to adopt. Supposing our President makes a final appli¬ 
cation, and, if such is not then attended to, I suggest that you 
authorise us to ‘‘erase their names from our books;” in that case 
we shall become more and more select, and the members who will 
be in benefit will stand a better chance of reaping the advantages of 
so good, so worthy, and so useful a Society. Thanking you for your 
patience and attention, I have much pleasure in submitting to your 
notice the financial statement. 
THE NATIONAL VETERINAUY BENEVOLENT FUND. 
Ti 'easurer^s Financial Statementy 1869. 
Amount brought forward 
from last balance in cash 
£ 
s. 
d. 
book, Oct. 21st, 1868 . 
Subscriptions, &c., to May 
85 
6 
4 
3rd, 1869 . 
Donation from Liverpool 
Veterinary Medical As- 
13 
4 
11 
fcociation 
25 
0 
0 
Ditto from Edinburgh 
10 
0 
0 
Ditto from Yorkshire 
Bank interest, Dec. 25th, 
30 
0 
0 
1868 .... 
0 
11 
7 
£164 
2 
10 
£ s. d. 
Expenses from Oct. 21st, 
1868, to May 3rd, 1869 3 9 
Balance in bank to the 
credit of the Benevolent 
Fund .... 160 13 7 
May Zrdy 1869. 
