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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OF COUNCIL, HELD 13th OCTOBER, 
1880. 
Present: —The President, George Fleming Esq. (in the chair); Sir. 
F. Fitzwygram, Professors Pritchard, Walley, and Williams; Messrs. 
Freeman, Anderton, Morgan, Cartwright, Dray, Gowing, Cox, Whittle, 
Taylor, Greaves, Blakeway, Coates, Dollar, Reynolds, Robertson, Woods, 
Cartledge, and the Secretary. 
The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Signatures were affixed to diplomas in favour of Mr. James Callender, 
and Mr. Charles Byrne, holders of the Highland and Agricultura, 
Society’s Certificate. 
The Secretary stated that a gentleman, who had received a certificate 
from the Highland Society in the name of Alexander Bell Stuartson, 
wished his name on the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons to be mentioned as Alexander Stewartson Bell. 
Mr. Taylor and Mr. Gowing thought the Council should not agree to 
the request, as one diploma would not be in unison with the other. 
Mr. Robertson moved that the Council decline to give the diploma in 
the altered name as requested. 
Mr. Taylor seconded the motion, but said there would be no objection 
to the diploma being granted in the original name. 
At the suggestion of the President, the Secretary was instructed to 
inform the gentleman that he might have the diploma of the College if 
he resumed the name in which he received the certificate of the High¬ 
land Society of Scotland. 
The Secretary announced that a letter had been received from Mr. 
Harpley regretting his inability to attend the meeting. 
A letter had also been received from Mr. Duncan Marquis, expressing 
his thanks to the Council upon receiving his brother’s certificate in lieu 
of his original diploma, which had been lost in Australia. 
A letter had been received from Mr. Morrison, stating that the diploma 
offered was not what he required, and declining to accept it. 
Professor Williams stated that as Mr. Morrison had paid the fee and 
received the diploma, his name had been correctly entered in the 
New Register. 
Mr. Pray , therefore, proposed, and Mr. Blakeway seconded, that the 
fee of one guinea be not returned. 
The motion was carried unamimously. 
A letter was read from Mr. Mayer, of Cirencester, stating that the 
minimum marks on the different subjects on which students were ex¬ 
amined, when added together, made sixty, whereas seventy-two marks 
were required to pass, and requesting that the instructions of the Council 
might be given to the Board of Examiners with reference to the rejection 
of students. 
The President said it had always been understood at Examinations for 
the Fellowship Degree that seventy-two marks were required to pass a 
student. 
Reports of Examinations. 
At a meeting of the Court of Examiners for the Fellowship Degree, 
held in London on the 8th August, 1880, four candidates were examined 
and passed. 
