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hands of the Local Government officers. He felt that this applied
particularly to the province in which he was situated. A young
veterinary officer recently recruited to the department would un-
doubtedly feel that he much needed the support and experience
of a representative body in tendering advice to his Government.

    The Chairman was emphatic as to the need of introducing a
Central Board to deal with education. He felt that a local officer
would frequently need the assistance of such a body to support his
own expression of opinion to his Government. He gave an example
of an experience which he had when he wished to institute a 4 years'
course of education at the Punjab College. His scheme was examined
by his own Government and approved subject to alteration after
the results of the meeting of Principals. As the result of some
difference of opinion with the Director of Agriculture the scheme
was further examined by a special Committee appointed for the
purpose. It was approved finally but the procedure would have
been simplified had there been an expert central body to refer to
originally.

    As Principal of a College and as a Fellow of the University he
had endeavoured to dissipate the idea that veterinary education
was merely an exercise in mechanical methods. His connection
with the University had shown him that a properly constituted
Board of Studies had advantages and that the deliberations of such
a body were more likely to lead to fruitful results than the opinions
of an individual. He considered that when the colleges became
affiliated to the universities, Veterinary Faculties should be consti-
tuted. When that came about, the need of a central body
might not be so apparent, provided that sufficient expert advice
in the Faculties was available. Even then, however, a Central
Board might be very useful. He agreed that a Standing Committee
on Research and Epizootic Diseases was indispensable. With
regard to Administration he had nothing to say except that the
present position appeared to him to be an almost impossible one.
The Government of India must have advice from some source and
he felt that local veterinary advisers would like to have their advice
confirmed by a central body in some instances.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson stated that he was in whole-
hearted agreement with all that Mr. Edwards had said upon co-
operation in the investigation of disease, for whatever branch we
might represent or wherever we were situated the problem of
disease must be regarded as a single problem. This point had been
very well brought out by the Advisory Committee on Research
into Diseases of Animals. This body had definitely pointed out the
utility of research in the diseases of animals in relation to the investi-