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THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The Council, we are quite sure, will receive the approbation of 
the profession for having rejected the degradatory offer of com- 
promise made to them by the Governors of the London Veterinary 
“ College and they deserve the more credit for having refused 
to entertain overtures of such a nature, from the circumstance of 
their having been made to them at a period when their Chartered 
College stands in need of any and every support that can be ob- 
tained for it. Look at it which way we will, the fact is not to 
be blinked or lulled to rest, that, in the present condition of its 
affairs, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is any thing 
but a flourishing corporation. But a year or two old, purely pro- 
fessional in its constitution, without any extrinsic support what- 
ever, the College of Veterinary Surgeons stands at the present 
time, poor and insulate, in the midst of troubled waters. No public 
institution ever rose its head as a new object in society without 
having enemies as well as friends present at its inauguration : 
enemies, however, will always, in the course of time, disappear 
under the conviction of the public that the designs of the new in- 
stitution are such as are praiseworthy and hold out general utility ; 
and it is the steady, unremitting pursuit of these ends which will, 
and in time must, surround any institution with friends, be its cha- 
racter professional or commercial, or whatever it may. 
The importance of veterinary science in such a country as 
Britain is no longer matter of question. The considerations of 
the present age are, how so useful and important a science can be 
brought to the highest degree of perfection, and by what legiti- 
mate means those who profess and practise it can be placed upon 
a footing which their services in society give them a claim to com- 
mand. Root was given to the veterinary art in England by an 
Agricultural Society ; the plant has been nursed and nourished by 
the State, and by the Nobles of the State ; public approbation has 
