606 THE VETERINARY PROFESSION — THE CHARTER. 
the petitioners, and that there was an understanding between the 
parties that the proposed Charter, or instrument for that purpose, 
should be submitted to the Professor and Assistant Professors of 
the Royal Veterinary College of London for their consideration, 
after all the provisions to be inserted had been set forth in it, and 
that it should contain nothing which could prove detrimental to the 
Royal Veterinary College of London — and that the full draft of 
such instrument was never submitted to them previously to its 
ultimate presentation, and that they were in ignorance of several 
provisions contained in it, which they now find will operate preju- 
dicially to the said College. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
S. M. Phillips. 
Thos. Turner, Esq. President of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
No. II. 
To the Right Honourable her Majesty's Secretary of State for the 
Home Department . 
The humble Petition of the Noblemen and Gentlemen Subscribers 
to the Institution called the Royal Veterinary College of 
London, agreed to at a General Meeting of the Governors 
and Subscribers, holden at the College on the 1st July, 
1844, 
Sheweth, — That in the year 1791 the Royal Veterinary 
College of London was established, for the purpose of education 
in the veterinary science. The College is supported by voluntary 
public subscriptions, and is governed by a board consisting of Pre- 
sident, Vice-President, and a Committee of Governors. There are 
three professors of veterinary science, who are the teachers and 
lecturers in the various branches ; aboard of medical officers of 
the highest attainments also, with the assistance of the professors, 
are examiners of the pupils, and a lecturer on chemistry and the 
materia medica; forming, altogether, as efficient an institution for 
the instruction and admission of persons to practise in the profes- 
