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the Senior Students at the Deptford and Metropolitan Cattle Markets 
has also been satisfactory. 
The admission of all Students to the use of the Library belonging 
to the Veterinary Medical Association has worked satisfactorily. The 
Librarian reports that “ the Library has been freely used by all classes 
of Students,” that the number of subscribers to the reading-room is 
57, and that the subscriptions, 2s. 6d. per term, are expended in the 
purchase of periodicals, sixteen of which are taken in. 
By the resignation of Professor Pritchard, a vacancy occurred on 
March 25th in the Professorial Staff, the Governors have great pleasure 
in announcing that by the appointment of Mr. William Robertson, 
F.R.C.V.S., a gentleman well known in the Veterinary Profession, and 
a member of the Board of Examiners, a most competent successor has 
been secured. Mr. Robertson will enter formally on his duties in 
October next. 
The increase in the number of successful Candidates for the Diploma 
Examination, of which mention was made in last year’s Report, the 
Governors are pleased to find has continued ; in the past twelve months 
out of forty-seven Students who presented themselves under the new 
system only one was rejected. 
The Examinations for Students under the two years’ system came to 
an end in January last. 
Buildings. 
During th'e past year a new Students’ room has been provided by 
utilising four stalls in the stable next to the Pharmacy. A glass roof 
has been erected for the accommodation of the “ Cheap Practice ” 
patients; and in compliance with a memorial on the part of the Students, 
a lavatory has been placed in the dissecting room. 
Finance. 
From the Quarterly statements of receipts and expenditure, it 
appears that the receipts from March 31st, 1879, to March 31st, 1880, 
amounted to £10,546 16s. lOd. and the expenditure £10,191 19s. 4d., 
against £11,677 12s. receipts and £11,801 10s. lid. expenditure 
during the previous twelve months. The receipts, however, during that 
period include a temporary loan of £1000, which has since been repaid. 
It will be seen from this that the receipts during the past twelve 
months are in excess of expenditure by £354 17s. 6d., whilst in the 
year before the expenditure exceeded the receipts by £123 18s. lid. 
It must, however, be borne in mind that by the alteration in the 
mode of payment of the pupils’ fees the amount received under this 
head, viz. £2479 Is., is larger than it would otherwise have been, and 
that unless the diminution in the number of admissions should cease, it 
will in future years be materially lessened. 
On the recommendation of a Committee appointed to confer with a 
deputation of Veterinary Surgeons, the charge for Horses has been 
raised from 3s. 6A to 4s. per diem , and the privileges of Subscribers 
with regard to the examination of Horses for soundness have been 
curtailed. Should no diminution take place in the number of Horses 
admitted into the Infirmary for treatment, nor in the number of Sub¬ 
scribers, both these measures will increase the revenue of the College. 
Royal Agricultural Society. 
The Governors are pleased to be able to report that their relations 
with the Society remain in every respect satisfactory. 
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