THE VETERINARY PROFESSION — THE CHARTER. 611 
The letter from Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps to the President 
of this College, and the copies of two petitions which had been 
presented to her Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, from “ The Noblemen and Gentlemen, Sub- 
scribers 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,” hav- 
ing been read and very fully considered, and this Council hav- 
ing taken all the means in their power to ascertain the particulars 
referred to in such petitions, beg, agreeably to the suggestion of 
the Secretary of State, to transmit to him the following statement 
of facts: — 
That, in the year 1840, the memorial marked A * was presented 
to the Governors and Subscribers of the Royal Veterinary College 
of London, at their annual meeting, by deputation, which deputa- 
tion requested the Governors of that College to petition for a Royal 
Charter of Incorporation for themselves and for the veterinary pro- 
fession. That, shortly afterwards, the Governors of the Royal Vete- 
rinary College returned the answer marked B t : that in conse- 
quence thereof a meeting of the veterinary profession was called 
by public advertisement, which meeting elected a Committee for 
the purpose of endeavouring to obtain for the profession a Royal 
Charter of Incorporation, upon some such plan and constitution as 
the then Royal College of Surgeons enjoyed : that the utmost pub- 
licity was given to those proceedings: that, early in the year 1841, 
the Committee prepared the petition and address marked Cf, 
copies of which were sent to the Professors of the Royal Vete- 
rinary College of London : that, in addition, a deputation was 
appointed to wait upon those gentlemen, and that such deputa- 
tion had an interview with them at the Royal Veterinary College 
of London, Mr. France, the solicitor to the Governors of that 
College, being present, and being then introduced to the deputa- 
tion as the legal adviser of the College : that at that interview 
it was admitted by the Professors and Mr. France, that it was 
perfectly just and right for the veterinary profession to have a 
* See Veterinarian, vol. xiii, p. 193. f Ibid, vol. xiii, p. 543. 
f The petition and address here referred to is the same as that circulated 
among the profession in the early part of the year 1841. 
