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REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING. 
years have elapsed, and nothing has been done; and if you 
do not take the thing in hand and put your shoulders to the 
wheel, nothing will be done for the next twenty years. 
With respect to educating the veterinary surgeon, I would 
remark that you will never have an educated class of veteri¬ 
nary surgeons until you secure them a respectable living. 
You cannot expect a man with an education will attend your 
Colleges and become a veterinary surgeon, to find, when he 
goes into the country and has to contend with empirics, that 
he cannot make more, perhaps, than £150 or £200 a year. 
Now, this Bill is very moderate in its provisions; it interferes 
with no one who is actually in practice; but it says this—that 
after the passing of this Bill, &c., thus a man having practised 
without a diploma, the son cannot succeed him unless he shall 
have obtained one. The restriction thus applied prospectively 
would injure no one, and that is the Bill we ought to have 
introduced, for I do not think the Legislature would have 
the slightest objection to it. 
The motion that the Report be adopted, was then put and 
carried. 
The President .—The next business is to elect the Council. 
Mr. Wilkinson .—I have a word to say before you do that. 
The way in which this part of the business is usually con¬ 
ducted is not satisfactory. I would suggest that you should 
wait until all the names have been proposed, and then make 
your selection. 
Mr. Bale and Mr. Tremlett were appointed scrutineers. 
The following was the result of the ballot: 
Professor Yarnell . 
. 35 
Mr. R. Hunt 
. 37 
,, C. Dickens 
. 28 
,, T. Greaves 
. 25 
„ W. Pritchard. 
. 23 
,, E. Harrison . 
. 11 
„ W. Partridge. 
. 5 
Mr. J. Lawson 
. 45 
,, Geo. Brown . 
. 28 
,, J. Moon 
. 27 
,, J. Broad 
. 24 
„ W. Pield 
. 18 
,, R. C. Gardiner 
. 9 
The President declared the election to have fallen on Messrs. 
J. Lawson, R. Hunt, Geo. Varnell, Geo. Brown, Charles 
Dickens, Jas. Moon, and Thos. Greaves. 
It was next decided by lot that Mr. Lawson take the place 
of Mr. Jex, retired. 
A vote of thanks to the President was carried by acclama¬ 
tion, for his kind and courteous conduct in the chair, after 
which the meeting broke up. 
