450 NEW MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
ment of this rule proposed, by Mr. Greaves , was ultimately carried, in 
advocating which he made the following remarks : 
Your officers have an authority to interview the defendant and hear 
from him his statement of the case before we form our opinions. In 
some cases we had an opportunity to interview the plaintiff, and then 
found our first opinion was an incorrect one. I maintain, therefore, 
that it is your duty to authorise us to seek an interview with the 
plaintiff if possible, and thus be better enabled to lay the true facts 
before the Council. In one case in which your officers acted thus, they 
saved the funds of the Society £40, in another, in xvhich they were pre¬ 
vented doing so, although they had a strong inclination, the Society 
was mulcted upwards of £90, which might have been saved had we 
possessed such a rule as follows:—“That in every case the officers shall 
have the power to seek an interview with the plaintiff as well as the 
defendant, and if in their opinion it will be for the interests of the 
defendant and the Society, to endeavour to arrange terms of settlement, 
subject to the approval of the Council.” I am emboldened the more to 
urge this in consequence of the fact that in every case we have had an 
interview with plaintiffs, we have found them open to reason and 
desirous of settlement. I am aware few solicitors would advise this 
course; their cry would be you are sure to win, while the opposition use 
precisely the same argument, but I say it is by far the best for these 
cases to be fairly considered, and decided by the common sense of a 
council of experienced veterinary surgeons. 
After an expression of opinion by the various gentlemen present, the 
amendment was ultimately carried, to be read along with Rule 8. 
After a vote of thanks to the President for his services in the chair, 
the meeting terminated. George Morgan, 
Ron. Sec. 
NEW MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
At the meetings of the Scottish Section of the Court of Examiners of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, held in Glasgow, on April 13th, 
the following students from the Glasgow Veterinary College received the 
diploma, and were admitted members of the profession : 
Mr. Allan Pollock Blue 
— Tlios. Cunningham Bowie 
— Thos. Anderson Douglas 
— Richard Hughes . 
— Wm. Jas. Gray Johnson 
— Alexander Milligan 
— Jeremiah McCarthy 
— George Hill Pollock . 
— William Stevenson 
— Robert Stevenson 
—■ James Wyper 
Messrs. Blue and Hughes were 
Great Credit. 
Eastfield, Mearns, Renfrewshire. 
Kilbarclian, Mearns, Renfrewshire. 
Fenwick, Ayrshire. 
Llanarmon, S. Wales. 
Eountainville, Belfast. 
Cornwall, Wigtonshire. 
Leap, Co. Cork. 
Bridgeton, Glasgow. 
Howwood, Renfrewshire. 
Hassall Street, Newcastle, Stafford¬ 
shire. 
Vincent Street, Glasgow, 
distinguished by having passed with 
The following students passed their Second Examination at the meetings 
of the Court of Examiners held on April 19th and 20th : 
