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KOVAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
which occurred in a cargo of cattle lately landed at Silioth, and that he 
urge upon the Privy Council that more stringent regulations and more 
careful inspection of imported Irish cattle are requisite both at the ports 
of embarkation and arrival. 
The report of the Committee was then adopted. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, HELD OCTOBER 
27th, 1880, 
The President, George Fleming, Esq., in the chair. 
Present: —Professors Robertson, Axe, and Pritchard; Messrs. Batt, 
Collins, Cox, Dollar, Dray, Dun, Gowing, Greaves, Harpley, Taylor, 
Woods, and the Secretary. The notice was read convening the meeting. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Letters were read from Professors Walley and Williams; Messrs. 
Coates, Freeman, Blakeway, Whittle, and Morgan, expressing their 
inability to attend the meeting. 
A letter was read from the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Veterinary 
Medical Society, offering their assistance in procuring the Penal Act. 
The Secretary was directed to thank them for the offer of their support. 
A letter was read from Mr. Archibald Robinson accepting the appoint¬ 
ment as Examiner, and expressing his thanks to the Council for the 
honour conferred upon him. 
House Committee. 
The report was received, and assent was given by the Council to the 
request contained therein. 
Winter Examinations. 
The President said it had been notified by the Principal of the Royal 
Veterinary College that the first week in January would be a con¬ 
venient time to commence the Examinations, and that they would 
occupy about six nights in London. 
Notice of Resignation. 
The President said he had given notice of his resignation as a member 
of the Court of Examiners. He had done so on two grounds. In the first 
place, there had been an agitation since he was elected President with 
regard to a second Examiner being appointed at the Final Examination. 
The matter was brought on in a rather hasty and informal way at the 
meeting for the election of President and Vice-Presidents, and, of course, 
could not be then considered. When the matter was brought forward at 
a subsequent meeting he expressed his views on the subject, and stated 
that he thought a personal reflection was cast upon himself; and after 
referring to the rumours which had been promulgated in a certain 
quarter of late, said that if a second Examiner were appointed he 
should consider it a slur upon himself, and should resign. The mover 
of the motion then brought forward another resolution, leaving it 
to the Financial Committee to consider whether a second Examiner 
should not also be appointed at the First and Second Examina¬ 
tions, but that Committee reported at the last meeting that the funds of 
the College would not allow of these second Examiners. The mover 
