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THE PRESIDENT’S BANQUET IN BIRMINGHAM. 
The President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Mr. 
R. L. Hunt, invited a large number of its members to a banquet, at 
the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston, on the 28th instant. 
Amongst those who attended were Air. William Field, London, late 
President of the College; Mr. J. Sampson Gamgee, Surgeon to the 
Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham ; Air. Lawson, Manchester, and Air. 
Cartledge, Sheffield, members of the Board of Examiners for Scot¬ 
land, and of the Council; Air. Greaves, Alanchester, President of 
the Lancashire Veterinary Medical Society, and member of the 
Executive Council; Air. Charles Hunting, Durham, and Air. C. E. 
Dray, Leeds, respectively Presidents of the Veterinary Medical 
Associations of the North of England and of Yorksliire; Mr. 
Walters, Air. J. Marston Parker, Mr. E. Stanley, Mr. Davy, and 
Mr. Tailby, Birmingham ; Air. Blakeway, Stourbridge ; Air. Harbor, 
Kidderminster; Mr. Perrins, Worcester; Air. Rose, Warwick; 
Mr. Elkington, Coventry ; Mr. Huntriss, Dudley; Air. Cartwright, 
Wolverhampton ; Air. Woodger, London ; Air. Litt, Shrewsbury ; 
Air. Carless, Stafford; Air. J. C. Broad, and Mr. J. B. Henderson, 
London ; Air. T. D. Broad, Bath; and Mr. Leech, Bakewell. The 
loyal toasts having been duly honoured, the President proposed 
<£ The Royal College of Wterinary Surgeons.” In doing so he 
observed that he quoted the corporate title in its widest and most 
correct sense. He doubted if all the members who honoured him 
with their presence, much more the general body of the profession, 
formed a just estimate of what was implied by the legal designation 
of the Veterinary Aledical and Surgical body, incorporated in the 
seventh year of our most gracious Sovereign’s Reign. Many 
imagined that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was merely 
the institution in Red Lion Square, London, where the Executive 
of the profession regularly transacted business, and the annual 
meetings were held; whereas that was only the official head¬ 
quarters of the body corporate. The Royal College of Veterinary- 
Surgeons consisted of the entire profession, as by law established 
throughout Her Alajesty’s Dominions. The charter of incorpo¬ 
ration gave to each member admitted into their body, after test of 
his education and proficiency by the Board of Examiners, full and 
equal share in the electing of the Council, and in the custody and 
furtherance of the general interest. Lest his memory should betray 
him, the Chairman begged permission to quote, in support of his 
interpretation, the exact words of the charter, which declares, that 
“ all persons as respectively now are, and may hereafter become, 
students of the Royal Veterinary College of London, or of the 
Y r eterinnry College of Edinburgh, or of such other veterinary 
college, corporate or incorporate, as now is, or hereafter shall be, 
established for the purposes of education in veterinary surgery, 
whether in London or elsewhere in our United Kingdom, a,nd which 
we or our royal successors shall, under our or their sign manual, 
