284 THE COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
We do not blame the members of those societies, nor the Go- 
vernors of the Royal Veterinary College of London, for the parts 
which they have been induced to perform. We feel assured that, 
though mistaken and duped by false representation, every indivi- 
dual of their body is actuated only by what is conceived to be the 
loftiest principle. They are, however, deceived, and, upon highly 
coloured ex-parte representations, have imprudently sanctioned the 
use of their names by such as have a disappointed ambition to ap- 
pease and a personal rancour to gratify. 
Let these gentlemen pause before they are made the tools of a 
petty cabal, got up for an unworthy purpose. Let not these gen- 
tlemen be led away by names and titles that signify nothing. The 
London building may be called a college, but Morison built a college 
for the sale of number one and number two. 
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We would have these gentlemen pause before they lend them- 
selves to statements which, though true, are yet so advanced as 
to bear the sting of falsehood, and we here pause to illustrate the 
fact. 
When under the newly chartered body the Board of Exa- 
miners was originally formed, Mr. Baker undertook the exa- 
mination of pupils upon cattle, and to that gentleman singly, 
because of his known experience in a most difficult branch of 
study, this department was confided. Mr. Baker was regular in 
his attendance and searching in his investigations, and there was 
no room for complaint. To the Agricultural Society it was, 
however, formally represented that the institution of but one 
examiner on so important a subject was a proof of the necessity 
of interference, without which veterinary pupils might receive 
diplomas while yet unduly qualified to treat the diseases of 
ruminants, &c. The professors pointed out the grievance, and in 
doing this induced the belief that under the former system, of 
course, no such monstrosity as a single examiner upon cattle had 
existed. But how stands the fact! Under the former system, 
controlled by the Governors of the London Veterinary College, to 
whom the Royal Agricultural Society annually voted a certain 
sum for the teaching of cattle pathology, no examiner of any 
description was appointed, and no person having a diploma from 
the old Board can advance that he was questioned regularly or in- 
differently upon this branch of study. The institution of this 
office was the act of the chartered body, yet out of this very act 
was tortured an accusation, and the very accusation that was 
most influential in inducing the Society to occupy the position it at 
present holds. 
