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nary practitioners, and therefore we should hail with 
pleasure the arrival of the day when such persons were 
admitted among its duly qualified members. All the blame, 
however, of this not being done, does not rest with the 
governing power as resident in London, for not a little of 
it belongs, unfortunately, to the authorities north of the 
Tweed. 
It has often been said that men of ability are to be found 
in all grades and positions. The mere possession, therefore, 
of a diploma from the Court of Examiners of the body 
corporate, can no more give this, than can the certificate of 
Professor Dick’s school deprive them of it. Mr. Fleming 
may have grounds for his insinuation respecting some of the 
rejected pupils by the board acting for the Edinburgh 
school, readily obtaining a diploma from the section of the 
Court of Examiners appointed by the corporate body for 
Scotland, but he should remember that if this be true, the 
converse is no less so ; and that men have carried away 
honours from Scotland, and been paraded in the public prints 
as examples for imitation, and loudly extolled for their 
abilities and scientific acquirements, who have been rejected 
again and again in London, and who it was believed could 
never have passed the ordeal of an examination as here 
constituted, and as a last resource they had travelled north- 
ward. Such occurrences will ever take place, and they ought 
not to have been brought forward by one who seeks to do 
service to the Edinburgh system of granting certificates. 
We complain of the system only, for we entertain those 
feelings of friendship and respect for the authorities in the 
Scotch school who are pleased to adopt it, which would 
ever restrain us from saying one word against them, of 
a personally offensive nat ure. Differing as we do in 
our views from these authorities, we have felt it our duty 
to attach ourselves to the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, and in general to support its measures, believing 
that the cooperation of the schools with the body corporate, 
cannot do otherwise than tend to the elevation of the pro- 
fession in the estimation of the public, and likewise give to 
