THE EXAMINATIONS FOR DIPLOMAS. 
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List of Gentlemen who have obtained their Diploma 
frT)m the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
in the South. 
May 8 th. 
W. J. T. Morton 
J. Field 
Thos. Darby 
J. Ryder 
G. Dawson 
G. Freer 
G. Lepper 
J. Redwood 
G. Brown. 
May 15 th. 
W. Youatt 
J. H. Hill 
H. Emms 
J. Holmes 
W. Rogers 
R. Maxfield 
Thos. Leech. 
A question has been raised among the (veterinary) gentlemen 
appointed examiners, whether it were legal, or fitting, or expe- 
dient, that the teachers — of the Royal Veterinary College — should 
be present during the examination of their own pupils. That they 
are forbidden themselves to examine, or to take any active part in 
such examinations, is plainly enough expressed in the royal 
charter, the interdictory clause running thus : — 
“ That no professor of any or either of such colleges as afore- 
said, of which the person desirous of becoming a member of the 
said body politic and corporate shall have been a student, shall in 
any way or manner act or interfere as the examiner of such 
person.” 
The point in dispute is — whether the phrase, “ interference” 
does not, in the interpretation of the law, exclude them from the 
examination-room ; or, supposing they are present at the examina- 
tions, whether such an act may not tend, in the eye of the law, to 
invalidate any certificate of qualification granted by the examining 
board, and consequent admission of the recipient into the chartered 
body. Another form in which the question presents itself, is — 
supposing the teachers have a legal right to be present, how far it 
is fitting or expedient for them to exercise such a right. The right 
of the examiners themselves, as a board , to admit or exclude any 
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