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ROYAL COLLEGE OP VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
as the same be not repugnant to these presents or to the laws of this 
Our realm. 
3.—That at all Meetings of the said College at which votes shall 
be given for the election of the Council all votes of members of the 
said College entitled to vote shall be given by voting papers in the 
form defined in the bye-laws of the said College, or in a form to the like 
effect, such voting papers to be transmitted under cover to the Secretary 
of the said College not less than three clear days prior to the day on 
which the election is to take place. 
And we do hereby further declare Our will and pleasure to be that, 
except in the respects hereby altered, the said College and the Council 
of the same shall have and continue to have all such and the same 
jurisdiction, powers, and authorities for the making, ordaining, con¬ 
firming, annulling, or revoking orders, rules, and bye-laws, and 
transacting and ordaining all other matters and things whatsoever 
for the regulation, government, and advantage of the said College, as 
the said College and the Council thereof respectively had under the 
hereinbefore-recited Charters or Letters Patent, or in any other lawful 
manner. 
And we do hereby, for us, Our heirs and successors, further grant 
unto the said College that these Our Letters Patent on the enrolment 
or exemplification thereof shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, 
sufficient, and effectual in the law according to the true intent and 
meaning thereof, notwithstanding the not fully or duly reciting the said 
Charters or Letters Patent, or any other omission, imperfection, defect, 
matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, the same or any rule or law to the 
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 
In witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to be made 
Patent. 
Witness Ourself at Our Palace at Westminster, the 
day of , in the year of Our Reign. 
By Her Majesty’s Command. 
The Council have to report that since the last Annual Meeting sixty- 
nine students from the respective veterinary schools have received the 
diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the following 
obtained Honorable mention, viz.:—Mr. Charles Rutherford (Edinburgh 
Veterinary College), with Very Great Credit; Messrs. Alfred Charles 
Turner, James Blakeway, Titus Littler, William Henry McCaldon, 
Wm. Alston Edgar, James Mills, John Davies Thomas, and Frank 
Smith (Royal Veterinary College); Messrs. Edward Hugh Leach, 
John Legge, Andrew Hume, Frederick Garside, Edmund Woods 
Goldsmith, and Thomas Herbert Lewis (New Veterinary College, 
Edinburgh); also Messrs. William Miller and John McDougall (Glasgow 
Veterinary College) with Great Credit. 
The following gentlemen were elected Examiners for the Fellowship 
Degree:—Professors Williams and Duguid; Messrs. Fleming and 
Harpley. 
A special examination for this Degree was held on July 31st, 1878, 
when the following were admitted Fellows: 
Mr. Charles Joseph Whitworth, London. 
,, Andrew Spreull, Dundee, Forfarshire. 
„ Osborne Joseph Hills, Leamington. 
Captain Benjamin Hill Russell, Grantham. 
At this examination the Dean of the College of Preceptors was pre¬ 
sent, in order that he might be enabled to draw out some scheme by 
