632 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Professor Walley moved that the Report be adopted, and that the 
Treasurer be instructed to invest £500. 
Mr. Blakeway seconded the motion, which was carried. 
House Committee. 
The Report was taken as read. 
On the motion of Mr. Dray seconded by Mr. Pritchard , the Secretary 
was empowered to purchase a safe in which to deposit the documents 
of the Council, at a sum not exceeding £20. 
Major-General Sir F. Fitzwygram moved that a second Examiner be ap¬ 
pointed in each subject in the Pass Examination. In doing so, he referred 
to the present satisfactory state of the funds. It would be in their recollec¬ 
tion that four or five years ago the College was gradually drifting into 
insolvency, and they were obliged to take some stringent steps in regard 
to their fees. It was then conceded for the time, though it was con¬ 
siderably objected to then, that some portion of the two earlier exami¬ 
nations should be carried on by single Examiners, and that in the Pass 
Examination, in which hitherto there had been two Examiners, there 
should be only one Examiner. That system had gone on up to the 
present time, but it was one which was open to objection, and he was 
one of those who were responsible for moving that the old custom of 
the College should be reverted to as soon as the funds would admit of it. 
He was quite aware that this subject had become complicated in con¬ 
sequence of another subject having one Examiner, but he would ask 
the Council that night, especially, as Professor Williams was not present, 
to agree simply on the broad grounds of the question, if the funds 
would allow it, to have two Examiners in each examination. He wished to 
disconnect his proposal from anything that might have occurred outside. 
Mr. Dray seconded the motion. 
Mr. Harpley suggested that the motion should include the proposal 
that an Examiner should be appointed at the next quarterly meeting. 
The President said he had not urged the necessity of appointing a 
second Examiner at his table, and that he was willing to perform the 
duties as he was, single-handed. Pie could not, therefore, see the 
necessity for having a helpmate. He should prefer to remain single- 
handed until the Examiners in the First and Second Examinations 
should sit double. 
Mr. Dollar said that in his opinion the Pass Examination was of much 
greater importance to the Examiners, to individuals, and to the profes¬ 
sion, than the First and Second Examinations. Speaking as an Examiner 
of twenty years’ experience, he thought it was of the greatest importance 
to the Examiner himself and the individual examined that there should 
be some one to assist him. There was no one except those who had 
sat eight hours Examining students right off—with no one to assist 
them—who knew what a trying matter it was. He thought there 
ought to be two Examiners at the Pass Examination table. 
Mr. Greaves said he agreed with Mr. Dollar that there should be two 
Examiners at the Pass Examination, and would support the motion. 
Mr. Fleming had been an Examiner for a great many years, and had 
given great satisfaction. If the students were not fit to pass Mr. 
Fleming was just the man who would not pass them. The only desire 
for having a second Examiner was to give confidence to the other 
Examiner, and satisfaction to the table and the examination itself. 
Prof. Walley said that on looking over the list of examinations he 
had found the percentage of rejections by the Examiners to be pretty 
well equal. 
