98 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
Joseph Gibbs, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgeon. 
William Capes, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgeon. 
Algernon Pitcher, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgeon. 
THE APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTORS. 
By M.R.C.V.S. 
Gentlemen, — The Charter which was granted to the veterinary 
profession a year ago had, I presume, for its object, the raising of 
the social position of veterinary surgeons, and the protection of the 
public from empiricism and quackery. 
Now, in a town a few miles distant from the one in which I reside, 
a respectable member of the colleges and a quack applied for the 
post of Inspector under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. 
The unqualified applicant was successful. 
I append a short extract from the Royal Charter, and would ask 
whether, in confirming such appointments, “ the right hands 
of those who manage the nation’s affairs know' what their left 
doth.” 
“ And we do further declare and grant, that the Veterinary Art 
as practised by the members of the said body politic and corporate, 
shall be henceforth deemed and taken to be and recognised as a 
profession, and that the members of the said body politic and cor- 
porate solelij and exclusively of all other persons whomsoever, shall 
be deemed and taken and recognised to be members of the said 
profession, or professors of the said art, and shall be individually 
known and distinguished by the name or title of Veterinary 
Surgeons.” 
The College crest, I believe, represents a Centaur. We learn 
from mythology, that the Centaurs, being defeated by the 
Lapithae, were driven to Arcadia, and subsequently, incurring the 
displeasure of Hercules, were exterminated. Now really, gentle- 
men, in the present anomalous state of things, unqualified men 
might not inaptly adopt for a crest a defeated Lapitha (there are 
many to be copied from the Elgin marbles), and for a motto, ‘ Ars 
inutilis ,’ instead of Apollo as a presiding deity over their fortunes. 
I can suggest no better substitute. Can you ? 
Yours most obediently. 
