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of their bye-laws would be committing an act that would render 
them, what they would richly merit to be, a perfect noil-entity. 
No. 9, proposing a new Board of Examiners, and granting the 
power of acting thereon to the Professors of the Veterinary Colleges, 
is objected to; because the Council, and the profession generally, 
are perfectly satisfied with the members of the present Board, and 
therefore do not see any necessity for a re-election ; that the Pro- 
fessors have no reasonable claim to act as Examiners; that, in fact, 
they have repudiated such claim, and that they are already ex officio 
members of the Board. 
No. 10, proposing a curriculum of studies for the pupils, is ob- 
jected to ; not only because the certificates required from the pupils 
having been already decided on by the Council, they see no reason 
for altering the same, but still more particularly as the test of that 
most important part of veterinary education, a practical knowledge 
of the foot of the horse, is in the proposed programme altogether 
omitted : the necessity for this decision will be self-evident on re- 
ference to the following original list of studies required at the Royal 
Veterinary College more than half a century ago : — 1st course, 
the study of Zootomy ; 2d, the study of the Exterior of the Horse ; 
3d, Course of Operations; 4th, Course of Pharmacy ; 5th, Course 
of Botany ; 6th, Shoeing and Pathology ; 7th, Clinical Instruction 
and attending to Patients ; 8th, Epizootic Diseases — forming a far 
more comprehensive curriculum than this proposed to be definitely 
fixed by charter half a century later. The only exception to this 
decision might be with respect to the apprenticeship clause; with- 
out doing away with which, an attendance, instead, of three years, 
at either of the Veterinary Colleges, might be considered satisfac- 
tory. 
No. 11, fixing the further period of study for the rejected candi- 
dates, agreed to, but not the additional fees. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Our reports of the proceedings of Council will be found pregnant 
with interest. The tiresome correspondence with Mr. Secretary 
Sewell at length ended in a day and hour being appointed at which 
a conference would be held by the Governors of the Royal Vete- 
