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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
it would be admitted that there was scarcely a fashionable locality 
between Red Lion Square and Saint Pancras. 
Mr. Fleming said he meant not a fashionable locality, but a respectable 
locality. He begged to move, as an amendment to Mr. Greaves’ 
motion, that no steps be taken for the purchase of the house until further 
attempts had been made to receive assistance. 
Professor Axe seconded the motion, believing that the time was not 
far distant when they would be able to obtain a considerable amount of 
political influence to bear on the demands by the profession for 'pecu¬ 
niary assistance. He thought it better to defer the matter for the pre¬ 
sent, as he felt sure that by-and-bye they would be in a position to 
purchase such a property as would not only give satisfaction to, but also 
bring credit on, the profession. 
Mr. Fleming’s amendment was then put to the meeting and lost, and 
Mr. Greaves’ motion was put and declared carried. 
Mr. Hartley said he should not have voted for Mr. Greaves’ motion if 
he had thought that a price was to be stated. Pie was of opinion that 
the matter should be referred to the next quarterly meeting, and that in 
the meantime the Secretary or the Plouse Committee be instructed 
to ask what price the house could be purchased at. 
Mr Greaves said he would withdraw his former proposition, and pro¬ 
pose that the House Committee be instructed to have an interview with 
the agents for the house in Fitzroy Square and ascertain the lowest price 
at which it could be purchased. 
Mr. Freeman seconded the motion, which was carried. 
The Secretary then read a letter dated Nov. 18, 1879, from the sur¬ 
veyor to the estate asking for some additional improvements to be made 
on the premises 10, Red Lion Square. 
After some conversation, it was resolved to allow the letter to lie on 
the table. 
A letter was received from Mrs. Green-Armytage, Northlands, 
Bournemouth, stating that her son, in an engagement in the Zulu War, 
had lost his diploma, and asking that it be renewed. 
The Secretary stated that he had sent a reply to the effect that the 
gentleman in question ought to make his own personal application. 
The Secretary read the following letter from Dr. Dunsmure relative to 
an application made to him for refunding fees which were said to be 
overcharged. 
Mr. A. McKenzie, 
6, Lute Street, Aberdeen. 
. Edinburgh, Nov. 8, 1879. 
Sir, —You are quite right in stating that the fee for the diploma of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is £10 10s. 
The bye-laws of the College enact that every rejected student before 
re-examination must pay a fee of three guineas. 
In July, 1877, you paid £7 7s.; you were rejected, and consequently 
paid three guineas when you came up a second time for your minor in 
January, 1878. You then paid, or should have paid, one guinea for 
registration,that made eight of the ten guineas. 
In January, 1879, you paid three guineas instead of two from vour 
not having told me that you were under the old rules; but, as“you 
were rejected, you only paid two in April instead of three, thus making 
ten guineas for the diploma, and the remainder for your re-exami¬ 
nations. 
(Signed) James Dunsmure. 
