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ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The Quarterly Meeting or the General Purposes Committee 
was held on the 8th October, in the Board Room of the College. 
Present: 
Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P. 
Col. Kingscote, C.B., M.P. 
Sir F. Fitzwygram, Bart. 
Lord Arthur Somerset. 
Mr. Berens. 
Mr. Berens was elected Chairman of the Committee for the year in 
the place of Sir Paul Hunter, to whom a vote of thanks was unani¬ 
mously accorded for his valuable services during the previous twelve 
months. 
The Accountant read the Quarterly Statement of Receipts and Ex¬ 
penditure. The names of 53 new Subscribers were submitted to the 
Meeting and declared elected. 
The Principal’s Quarterly Report was read, from which it appeared 
that at the Examinations held at the close of the Summer Session, by 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 47 students were examined, 
of whom 37 passed ; 8 of them with “ great credit!” 
With further reference to the school, it was stated that, compared 
with former years, there was a falling off this Session in the number of 
Students entering the College, in consequence of the higher standard of 
the Matriculation Examination recently introduced. The Principal 
recommended that English History should be removed temporarily from 
the list of obligatory to that of voluntary subjects, and that the 
minimum number of marks required in all the subjects should be 
lowered. 
The Committee agreed to these recommendations, and ordered that 
they should at once come into operation. 
It was reported that 175 horses had been admitted into the infirmary 
during the past quarter; of these, 71 were the subjects of lameness, 28 
of injuries (including fractures), 26 of catarrh, influenza, bronchitis and 
chest affections, 15 of skin diseases, 7 of abscesses, 6 of tumours in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the body, 5 of indigestion and colic, 2 of farcy, 2 of nasal 
gleet; the others being sent for either the loss of condition, the existence 
of worms, or the exhibition of a course of physic. 
A great increase was noted in the number of patients treated under 
the head of “Cheap Practice,” the number being 148 against 112 in the 
preceding quarter. The horses so treated have been mostly the subjects 
of lameness, the larger number of cases being of long duration. 
The report concluded with a summary of the diseases investigated on 
behalf of members of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
The meeting was subsequently adjourned until the following Friday, 
the 15th, at 3 p.m. 
Mr. J. Collins. 
Mr. M. J. Harpley. 
Mr. Barnard Holt. 
Mr. H. G. Sutton. 
