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to Mr. Coates he might be induced to remain in the position in which 
he (Mr. Gowing) was only too happy to see him. 
The President said that would be discussed at the next meeting. 
The resolution was then agreed to. 
The President read a requisition signed by twenty-two members of 
the College requesting the Council to call a special meeting to con¬ 
sider the system of competition maintained at the Royal Veterinary 
College, St. Pancras, which in the opinion of those who signed the requi¬ 
sition was injurious to the profession generally. / 
Mr. Greaves said, as one of those who had signed the requisition he 
had been induced to attend the meeting, and the advice he gave to 
the members was, that, this being a matter between the London prac¬ 
titioners and the Royal Veterinary College, he thought the more 
straightforward course would be to appoint a deputation and request 
an interview with the Governors in order to lay their grievances before 
them. He was overruled by those present, who considered it the 
more legitimate course to apply to the Council as being the head of the 
veterinary profession ; and in the result it was decided to ask the 
Council to call a general meeting of the whole profession in order to 
discuss the difficulty. 
Mr. Fleming said the petition appeared to be in proper form, and was 
quite in accordance with the bye-law. The Council was not in a position 
to discuss the matter; the only thing they could do was to accede to the 
petition, which was perfectly legal. 
The Secretary was directed to call the meeting for Wednesday, 
October 15th, by advertisement, in the same manner as was provided in 
the Charter in the case of the annual meeting, the object of the meeting 
being specified in the advertisement. 
Mr. Fleming gave notice of motion, that no gentleman be allowed to 
receive his diploma under the age of twenty-one years, and that on pre¬ 
senting himself for his final examination he should produce a certificate 
of age. 
Professor Walley gave notice that at the next Council meeting he would 
bring forward a motion to discuss the advisability of placing the second 
summer session between the first and second examinations, instead of, as 
at present, between the second and third. 
Also that, at the next meeting, he would call attention to the bye-laws 
referring to the admission of medical men and gentlemen holding the 
diploma of any veterinary examining body recognised by the Council. An 
anomaly seemed to have crept in which was never intended, for by that 
bye-law a medical man was exempt from the first examination, whereas 
a veterinary surgeon must pass the first and second examinations if he 
wished to obtain the diploma. 
SPECIAL MEETING. 
Mr. Robertson proposed the adoption of Mr. Peter Taylor’s alteration 
of Bye-law 37, which was carried at the last meeting. 
Mr. Whittle seconded the resolution. 
Professor Walley said he believed the rescinding of the bye-law was a 
step in the wrong direction, because it would throw into the Schools a 
number of men who did not care how long they remained there, and 
who would make other men as bad as themselves. He would move, as 
an amendment, that the bye-law be rescinded, but with this proviso : 
That if the student could not bring to the Board of Examiners and the 
Secretary of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons a certificate from 
the principal of his college that he had studied during the interval, he 
