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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OE THE COUNCIL, held July 7th, 1869. 
Present: —The President, Professors Spooner, Simonds, 
Gamgee, Brown, and Assistant-Professor Pritchard; 
Messrs. Broad, Cartwright, Ernes, Fleming, Harrison, 
Moon, Morgan, Robinson, Wilkinson, and the Secretary, 
The President in the chair. 
The minutes of the two special meetings were read. 
Mr. Wilkinson asked if there were any remarks in any 
subsequent minute concerning the Committee formed at Pro¬ 
fessor Spooner’s suggestion. It was desirable that some state¬ 
ment should be made of what became of that Committee, or 
what was done in reference to the communication from the 
Veterinary Society of the North of England. 
The Secretary said the appointment of the Committee was 
left entirely in the hands of the late President. 
Professor Simonds thought, in that case, the Council ought 
to have had some special report from the President respect¬ 
ing it. 
Professor Spooner contended that any discussion as to 
that Committee was premature. All they had then to do 
was to consider whether or not the minutes were correct. 
Mr. Wilkinson asked what further steps were taken in the 
matter. 
The Secretary said he called upon the late President on 
the following morning after the appointment of the Com¬ 
mittee, and was told that he (the President) would see 
the parliamentary agents on the subject. He did so 
afterw'ards. 
The following words were then inserted in the minutes 
relating to the appointment of the Committee:—It was 
finally arranged that the Secretary should call upon the Pre¬ 
sident, who undertook to see the parliamentary agents on 
the subject.” 
The minutes were then confirmed, and also the minutes of 
the special meeting on May 25th. 
The Secn^etary announced that letters had been received 
from Professors Williams, McCall, Brown, and Mr. Morgan, 
acknowledging the honour of their election as Vice-Presidents. 
A letter was also read from Professor Williams, of Edinburgh, 
regretting his inability to be ])resent. 
The Secretary laid on the table a little work entitled ^ The 
Thermometer as an Aid to Diagnosis in Veterinary Medicine,’ 
