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REMARKS ON THE 
support, the Chartered Body has but to render it manifest to an 
enlightened and horse-loving public that their grand object is to 
send forth into the country men of higher pretensions as Vete- 
rinary Practitioners than have hitherto been sent, and thus to con- 
tribute to the profit of the agriculturist, the racer, the hunter, and 
proprietor of horses in general ; — in short, to give them a Vete- 
rinary Practitioner who shall, in their estimation, hold the same 
proud pre-eminence over one of another country as our horses and 
cattle hold at present over every known breed in the world. 
Can VETERINARY science lack this support in Britain, a country 
wherein all other arts and sciences flourish through public patron- 
age in such eminent degrees 1 Can the horse, the ox, the dog, 
the sheep, stand in want of a friend in sickness and suffering in a 
country where birds are nursed and flowers tended with nurturing 
care 1 Will Britain take less pride in her Veterinarian than in 
her horse or her ox 1 No such thing ! Too well is the worth of 
one known and appreciated for the sake of the other, and on 
account of that other will a British public liberally lend its aid in 
promotion of veterinary science, its professors and practitioners. 
For these reasons we augur well of the success of the appeal 
about to be made to the Public — as will be seen in the report of 
the proceedings of our Council — as well in the form of a public 
meeting as of a public dinner. Important steps, however, of this 
character must by no means be taken in a hurry or unadvisedly. 
As their success cannot fail to insure the objects sought for, so 
their failure would cast a heavy damper upon the Chartered Body. 
Men of first-rate rank, distinguished no less for their love of 
horses than for the weight of their names among horse persons in 
general — men standing high on the turf, in the camp, in the hunt- 
ing-field, and in the plough-field — all these must be canvassed 
beforehand, and their faithful promises secured to attend at such 
meetings, and there and then take such parts as will best insure 
the ends in view. And at these meetings, it is our opinion, mea- 
sures might be taken to, at least, sound some of the more influ- 
ential among those assembled concerning the expediency or pro- 
priety of petitioning Parliament in aid of our Chartered Body. In 
times past, Ministers materially assisted the Royal Veterinary 
