MEMOIRS OE A VETERINARY SURGEON. 371 
and which I consider I have a right to do, independent of our 
Charter, which includes two schools, one in Scotland and the 
other in London. The former has for some years past acted 
independent of the Charter, and the latter, some time since, 
threatened to adopt the like course, and also again on a later 
occasion (see Veterinarian , June, 1837* p. 357); therefore, 
should both these schools refuse to send pupils for examination 
before the board of the chartered body, and the London 
school adopt the same course as the Scotch, namely, having 
an examining board of its own, then our chartered body — 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons — will have no 
pupils to examine, and the veterinary profession will be 
placed in nearly the same position as it was previous to 
obtaining the Charter, and pupils will be considered as com- 
petent to practise after having presented themselves before a 
respectable body of examiners selected by either school. 
1 did not attend the last general meeting for the purpose of 
being placed on the Council, for I left the moment the voting 
commenced; neither did I solicit a vote from anyone; although 
I was one of the first that subscribed towards obtaining our 
Charter; and well I have been rewarded. 
I do not wish to see the above state of things carried out, 
although it would not injure me, but having one son already 
a pupil at the Royal Veterinary College, and another to enter 
when of a fit and proper age, I would rather that all the 
advantages we have under the Charter should be fully 
realised. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian .’ 
MEMOIRS OF A VETERINARY SURGEON. 
THOUGHTS ON NASAL GLEET. 
By Mr. Thomas Greaves, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
[Continued from p. 259.) 
My former paper was devoted to the consideration of nasal 
gleet resulting from artificial causes. I now purpose con- 
sidering nasal gleet arising from natural causes. 
If veterinary pathology has for its object the detection of 
disease in a dumb animal, and the proper mode of treating 
and curing that disease, it must be evident that the prac- 
titioner of veterinary medicine is pursuing a calling which 
