448 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
That the testimony of these gentlemen is one upon which the 
Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons place implicit 
confidence, may be gathered from the fact that they have adopted 
the above extract in the pages of their report just presented to the 
profession. 
In this report we find our statement fully supported; nay, it even 
goes further, and asserts that the Professor of the Edinburgh Vete- 
rinary College, this year , protested before the Board of Examiners 
against chemistry being TAUGHT in his class. 
If the report is false, then we must refer Dr. Mercer to the 
Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, whose especial 
duty it will be thoroughly to investigate the point in dispute. It 
has been from authentic documents that we founded the remarks 
that appeared in this paper, and not from any invidious feeling 
towards the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
To the Editor of “ The Mark Lane Express” 
Sir, — In your Journal of the 7th instant, you — apparently not 
a correspondent this time — again refer to the examinations at 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College of 1844; and the “ gratuitous 
statements” — (as I have been pleased to call them, and to which I 
have given a most unqualified contradiction in my last letter) 
made by you in your paper of June 2d, you have endeavoured 
to substantiate by a reference to a report made to the Council of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons by the deputation which 
they had sent to be present at these examinations. 
This report, bearing as it does the signatures of Professor 
Spooner, Veterinary College, London; Thos. Walton Mayer, jun., 
Newcastle-under-Line, Staffordshire; and E. N. Gabriel, Secre- 
tary to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London, in your 
full belief, abundantly testifies the good and efficient grounds for 
your assertions. It distinctly states that there was no examination 
in chemistry — none in materia medica — none in physiology — none 
on the diseases of cattle THAT DESERVED THE NAME. 
It is, indeed, sometimes very difficult to define what, or to indi- 
cate who, deserves a name ; but as the above, as also your former 
statement, is fully intended to convey an impression to the public 
that none or scarcely any questions were put to the pupils here on 
these branches at the examinations referred to — even granting the 
apostrophe of the report, that some questions were put, but these 
