MR. WATERS, JUN., IN REPLY TO MR. W. A. CHERRY. 561 
this, in return for the valuable information I have received from 
your highly talented journal. 
Hoping you now enjoy uninterrupted good health, 
I am, Gentlemen, &c. 
*** Not courtesy only, but justice, demands, when one journal makes an 
extract from another, that the borrower should acknowledge the lender. 
Our informant has r sent us his name, also a paper containing the 
extracts alluded to. — Ed. Vet. 
MR. WATERS, JUN. (“ONE OF THE INJURED PARTY”), 
IN REPLY TO MR. W. A. CHERRY. 
Gentlemen, — I n your last number I find a letter from Mr. W. 
A. Cherry, in reply to my letter, under the signature of “ A Sub- 
scriber, and one of the Injured Party,” to which I beg to offer 
the following as a rejoinder : — 
Mr. W. A. Cherry, as the champion of the Council, sets out by 
accusing me of gross inaccuracy, which he proposes to correct ; 
but, in attempting to do so, only shews his utter ignorance of the 
subject, or a wilful intention to pervert the facts. My complaint 
has nothing to do with the diplomas of 1846 (which, however, I 
understand were detained a month by the Council, for what reason, 
I believe, has not been explained), but with the four unjustly with- 
held in 1845 ; and, in order to shew the correctness of my state- 
ment, I shall point out the grounds on which I assert they were 
unjustly withheld. 
I entered as a student at the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 
November 1844. It was then, and had been, the regulation there 
for a number of years, that those students who had served an ap- 
prenticeship of three years with a veterinary surgeon should be 
allowed to stand an examination for the diploma after having at- 
tended one session at that school. I had served six years’ appren- 
ticeship, and produced my indenture ; and all others were allowed 
an examination after having attended two sessions, although they 
had not served any apprenticeship : the serving a three-years’ ap- 
prenticeship thus being held an equivalent to one session’s attend- 
ance at the College. 
I had been long previously in communication with Professor 
Dick, and entered with him in November 1844, on the express 
understanding that, at that time, no alteration had been made in 
the curriculum ; and it was not for two months after that the bye- 
