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enough ; and if it is found, when in London, where it is said the 
examinations were better conducted, the Board, or the Deputation 
who attended here, voluntarily declare that, on the point of cattle 
pathology, the pupils at London, who were, of course, well exa- 
mined, were not equal to the pupils here who were imperfectly ex- 
amined on that subject and not at all on others, it shews that the 
state of veterinary education, at least on cattle pathology, is in a 
still more grievous state in the south than it is in the north. 
I must again charge the Council with unfairness, not only in 
not bringing the Report before the meeting of the Incorporation, 
where it could have been discussed, but also with a dereliction of 
duty, inasmuch as, although they have appointed me an Examiner 
ex-officio, they have never given me an intimation to attend any 
of those examinations, where I should have been able to meet them 
on fair grounds as to the merits of the pupils and the examinations. 
But not only have they not done so, but Mr. Gabriel, the Secretary, 
stated when here in April last, that he would not send me intima- 
tion of the meetings of the Board of Examiners, — why, he did not 
say ; and I leave the public to form their own opinion of the rea- 
sons : at the same time it deserves the consideration of the Coun- 
cil, whether, if the full Board is not summoned, the examinations 
are not illegal. But although I have not had a proper opportunity 
afforded me of judging of the correctness of their comparison at these 
two examinations, I can shew that, at least, some of my pupils will 
stand a comparison with their confreres in the south ; for on a re- 
cent occasion, when two of the London pupils and one of mine 
were candidates for the situation of veterinary surgeon to a regi- 
ment of cavalry, after an examination of still greater severity 
than that for the diploma, the London pupils were both rejected, 
and mine passed with great eclat And when a prize of twenty- 
five pounds was last year offered by the Farmers’ and Graziers’ 
Mutual Cattle Assurance Association for the best Essay on the 
Nature and Treatment of Pleuro -pneumonia, and intimations were 
sent to almost all the veterinary surgeons in England and Scotland, 
so as to call forth all the knowledge of the profession, one of those 
very pupils who passed in April 1844 obtained the prize; thus con- 
firming the report on the one point of their knowledge of cattle 
pathology, and shewing that in the north, at least, it is a depart- 
ment that has not been neglected. 
It is stated in the Report, that I, this year, protested before the 
Board of Examiners against chemistry being taught in my class. 
That is untrue ; — I protested that the Council had no right by the 
Charter to examine or reject any of my pupils on chemistry, be- 
cause this school was included and acknowledged by the Charter 
as a veterinary college, when that science was not taught as one 
