384 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
sidering that, owing to their having been elected only a few days 
previous, and that they had not had sufficient time to issue needful 
instructions to the Examiners, resolved not to take any further 
notice of the proceedings. They derived, however, great plea- 
sure from the support they received in their views on these sub- 
jects from the veterinary surgeons in Glasgow ; and they cannot 
omit taking this opportunity of returning their thanks to them, and 
many other of their friends in Scotland, for the manner in which 
they came forward and avowed their sentiments on this occasion : 
these gentlemen not only expressed themselves in the highest terms 
in praise of the Charter, but they called a meeting of the profes- 
sion in Scotland, to take into consideration the grievous state of 
veterinary education in the North, and explained, by a Memorial 
to the Council, adopted by them at this meeting, their views of 
this subject in plain and forcible language, and added many valu- 
able hints for consideration ; a liberal subscription, at the same 
time, having been entered into to carry out the object of the 
Charter. 
The examinations of the students of the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege of London took place immediately after the examinations in 
Scotland : out of fifty-six examined, forty-one passed and fifteen 
were rejected ; and here, again, the Board would have been 
well pleased to have reported equally favourably of the division of 
cattle pathology as of the others preceding it : on all other points, 
however, the pupils passed a far better and more extended exami- 
nation than their confreres in the North. 
The Council received with much surprise a communication from 
the Home Office, dated July the 10th, 1844, containing copies of 
two petitions which had been presented to Sir James Graham 
from the Royal Veterinary College of London. Copies of these 
petitions, with the answer of your Council, have already appeared 
in “The Veterinarian,” and it was a source of much pleasure to 
the Council to have it in their power to refute by a plain state- 
ment of facts the unfounded assertions lodged against them : they 
regret, however, that the Governors of the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege should have been so far misled as to have made the statements 
contained in their petitions without proper inquiry from those most 
capable of giving them information. 
The annoyance which this matter occasioned was increased in 
consequence of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland 
petitioning for a distinct veterinary charter upon equally unten- 
able grounds. 
The attention of the Council was, however, withdrawn from the 
consideration of those painful subjects by matters of far more inte- 
rest to themselves and consequence to the profession, viz. the 
