850 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
teaching our students, or places for our younger members to learn it, will, 
I have no doubt, pooh-pooh the idea, and say it is useless; these I would 
ask to keep their eyes steadily on the pecuniary side of the question. 
But, gentlemen, I hope there are none of our members who entertain 
such ideas of advancement in our profession, and, therefore, I trust that 
those gentlemen who have their profession at heart, and are willing to 
provide, and be provided with, suitable and adequate premises for such 
investigation will side with me, and assist in solving the problem I have 
laid before you to-night, or suggest a more professional and profitable 
plan to supersede it, by which we could overcome our difficulty and 
advance veterinary pathology in this country. 
Thanking you, Mr. President and gentlemen, for your kind attention, 
and I hope that my efforts may lead to a profitable discussion, although 
I must own they are rather short and insufficient; but yet I trust I have 
sufficiently conveyed my meaning and ideas. 
LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The usual quarterly meeting of the above Association was held at the 
Blackfriars Hotel, Manchester, on Tuesday, the 13th April, 1880. 
W. Dacre, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The following members and friends were present:—Messrs. T. Greaves, 
P. Taylor, A. Lawson, W. A. Taylor, J. B. Wolstenholme, T. Taylor, 
E. Faulkner, of Manchester; W. Woods, Wigan ; Messrs. T. & A. W. 
Briggs, and A. Polding, Bury ; Mr. C. Challinor, Pendlebury ; Mr. Litt, 
Bolton ; Messrs. Morgan, Elam, and Reynolds, of Liverpool; Mr. Bunnell, 
Oldham; Mr. W. Whittle, Mosley, Mr. Fergusson, Warrington; and 
the Secretary. 
Letters of excuse were received from Prof. Pritchard, Messrs. John 
Lawson, W. G. Schofield, and M. E. Naylor. 
The minutes of the last meeting were duly read and confirmed, after 
which 
Mr. C. ~E. Challinor proposed as a member of this Association Mr. T. 
Stone, of Walkden. Mr. Litt , of Bolton, seconded the proposition, 
which was carried. Mr. Challinor also nominated Mr. A. W. Briggs, of 
Bury. Mr. A. Folding nominated Mr. James Folding , of Burnley. 
An adjourned discussion then took place on the president’s address, 
bearing principally upon the penal clause; exemption from serving on 
juries ; and the desirability of students serving an apprenticeship. 
The discussion was very animated, in which the following gentlemen 
took part: Messrs. P. Taylor, T. Greaves, T. Taylor, W. A. Taylor, 
W. Whittle, W. Woods, C. Elam, G. Morgan, R. Reynolds, and the 
president, all being of opinion that the carrying out of such measures 
would be to the advantage and advancement of the profession. 
The following resolution was then proposed by Mr. W. A. Taylor , 
seconded by Mr. T. Taylor , supported by Mr. T. Greaves , and passed 
unanimously: 
“ That this Society views with great pleasure the action already taken 
by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, in order 
to endeavour to obtain for the profession a penal clause; and further, 
this Society hereby wishes to record its willingness to render hearty 
support, pecuniarily (if necessary) and otherwise, to the Council, in 
their efforts to procure the object in view,” 
