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such an amount of material at our disposal, it seems to me that different 
courses of procedure are possible. 
1. The Association might publish annually a small volume of Pro¬ 
ceedings. This would be adopting, on a small scale, the method of such 
societies as the Zoological, Pathological, &c. It would prove advan¬ 
tageous by enabling the Association to exchange proceedings with other 
students’ societies, and in other ways, but it would prove expensive and 
onerous to the officers; it would necessitate the formation of a “ Pub¬ 
lishing Committee.” 
2. The Association might appoint a working ee Publication Committee ” 
to prepare reports of the work of the Society (and also essays) to be for¬ 
warded to editors of veterinary periodicals, who be requested to, if pos¬ 
sible, give them a place. The less important essays might be “ ex¬ 
tracted,” and thus their most useful matters retained. 
3. The Secretary might be instructed to forward for publication all 
reports of committees on professional matters, all accounts of cases, and 
all prize essays, using his discretion in the selection of material. This 
is the system adopted by most veterinary societies, with, however, the 
regular record of meetings and discussions, not always interesting. On 
this system the details of the meetings and discussions would remain in 
the minute book and then be available for reference. A further con¬ 
sideration of this matter seems to me to be necessary for the advance- 
inoni of the Association. We ought also to consider the question of 
occasional co-operation with other students’ societies, especially those of 
other veterinary and of the metropolitan medical schools, but this matter 
is at present rather prospective. Another question which members of 
the Association, as well as its officers, ought to consider is that of the 
collection of specimens for the use of the members, such as parasites, 
materia medica objects, forage plants, microscope slides, &c.; in the 
future the Association will admit of great development in this direction, 
perhaps some day our opening meeting may attain to the dignity of a 
soiree or a professional conversazione. I thus give “ free reins to my 
fancy ” of the future of the Association, because I am now desirous of 
impressing upon our student members that we must have recruits to 
carry out any of these marked advances. An annual increase of twenty- 
one members out of the large number of students who enter the College 
is rather small, and if our members were more urgent in explaining the 
advantages of the Association, doubtless most of the students entering 
the College would become members. The advantages at present offered 
comprise the chance of prizes and awards, the benefit of discussion and 
essay writing (voluntary), the practical and theoretical information con¬ 
veyed by papers and impressed on the mind by discussion, the privilege 
of examination of morbid specimens, the importance of each of which is 
carefully explained, and special reading-room privileges. The enume¬ 
ration of these leads us to the question of prizes and awards made 
during the past session. The “ Essays Committee” of the Council has 
given the following list of awards for essays read at the General Meet¬ 
ings : 
General Meetings Prize. —Mr. Theodore Chas. Toop, for his essay on 
“ Anthrax.” 
Honorary Fellowship Certificates. —Mr. G. A. Banham, M.R.C.V.S., on 
“ German Veterinary Schools;” Mr. R. Harding, “ Laminitis;” Sidney 
Yillar, “ Horse Shoeing;” W. H. Beach, “Diphtheria;” E. Bennett, 
“Antiseptic System;” J. W. Cane, “Stomachs of the Ox;” T. W. 
Lepper, “ Tuberculosis in Cattle.” 
The Spooner Prize Examination was held in the College on Thursday, 
