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the principal educating veterinary colleges and agricultural societies of the 
united kingdom. 
With a body so constituted some great officers of State — such as the Master 
of the Horse, the Master of the Buckhounds, and some of the principal medi- 
cal and surgical officers of Her Majesty’s forces — might properly be asso- 
ciated : the propriety of such an addition is obvious, on considering how 
important veterinary science is to the efficiency of Her Majesty’s cavalry. 
It is the opinion of Sir James Graham, that by this alteration the oppo- 
sition of the influential bodies to which he has already alluded might be 
obviated, and, at the same time, that additional dignity would be reflected 
on the whole profession. 
A body constituted on such a basis as I have sketched would have the 
character of a national institution, and it is natural to expect that its diplomas 
would be everywhere received with more consideration than when proceeding 
from a body exclusively composed of practising veterinary surgeons, as now 
established, however respectable. I shall be ready, on the part of Sir James 
Graham, to receive a deputation from your Council for the purpose of con- 
sidering the steps proper to be taken, after you have fully weighed this pro- 
position in all its bearings, and the consequences of its adoption or rejection 
by your body. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
H. Manners Sutton. 
T. Turner, Esq., Regent Street. 
In consequence of the intimation thus conveyed, that Mr. 
Manners Sutton would be prepared to receive a deputation from 
your Council, your President, Messrs. Percivall, Goodwin, Field, 
and the Secretary, were deputed to wait on that gentleman at 
any time that he might appoint ; and, accordingly, the interview 
took place at the Home Office on Monday, Nov. 24, 1845 : its 
result is contained in the following report to your Council : — 
“ Your President has to report, that an interview has taken place with 
Mr. Manners Sutton, who at the commencement remarked, that he had re- 
quested it upon the understanding that the Council had agreed to certain 
alterations being made in the Charter. The President, however, begged to 
remind Mr. Manners Sutton that no such acquiescence had been given. 
Upon which that gentleman declined entering into any particulars of the 
views of Sir James Graham, and the interview closed. 
“ Thos. Turner, President, 
on behalf of the Deputation.” 
Y ou will at once perceive that, should the suggestions of Sir J. 
Graham, or any analogous thereto, be entertained, the principles of 
your Charter would be undermined, and its integrity destroyed; 
for, instead of a Council elected by yourselves, chosen from your 
own body, and therefore intimately acquainted with the wants and 
interests of the profession, the whole affair would be under the con- 
trol of the government ; your elective franchise would be lost, and 
professional talent and character would be undervalued. 
