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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — WHILE a student at the Royal Veterinary College, 
London, my ears were often assailed, and my fears excited, by re- 
ports of the incapacity of the present Board of Examiners for the 
high and responsible position in which they are placed. 
When told that many were altogether unfit to examine pupils — 
that they could not put a question in an intelligible form — that they 
were often rude and uncivil — what was likely to be the influence ex- 
erted but to create the most unfavourable views of those very men 
in whom should be reposed the highest confidence 1 
Nor were these reports without their natural effect. Although 
unwilling to believe such statements, or to suppose the profession 
would place its interests in such unworthy hands, yet, anxious as 
I was, as a pupil, to gain my admission into the body corporate, 
I could not keep my mind free from anxiety, lest my worst fears 
should be verified. 
Never was man more happily disappointed. Instead of obscurity, 
ignorance, and rudeness, I found nothing but perspicuity, courtesy, 
and intelligence ; the most kindly feeling towards the student, 
evinced by a readiness to give him all the assistance consistent 
with duty, and an evident anxiety so to state the questions that 
they should be plainly understood, whilst the questions asked, at 
the same time, shewed their fitness for their position ; and I hesi- 
tate not to assert, that the examinations of this session afford irre- 
sistible testimony of the desire and ability of the examiners fully 
to carry out the object of their election. 
Hoping this may, in some degree, tend to silence calumniators, 
to assure the timid pupil, and to clear the reputation of the misre- 
presented, 
I remain, dear Sirs, 
Your’s truly, 
T. P. Dexter. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — May I beg the favour of a small space in your 
valuable Journal, for a few remarks I have to make upon the gross 
injustice practised bv the Council of the Royal College of Vete- 
