590 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS 
the profession, therefore, the same courses of proceeding, the same 
fellowship among its members, would be in operation then as now; 
there would, likewise, exist the same Council, and the same board 
for examination of pupils. The creation of another council and 
another examining board could in no way influence the present 
institutions of that denomination ; neither could any person, let 
him have passed any other examining board or not, be admitted as 
a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons until he 
had obtained the diploma as by their Council ordered and legally 
demanded through virtue of their Charter. Will the pupils at the 
different schools submit to this exclusion ! Will they rest content 
under this exceptionable enfranchisement'? Will they walk com- 
fortably in this condition of professional non-entity ] And, sup- 
posing the schools, through virtue of any separate charter they may 
obtain, choose to endeavour to persuade the public that any license 
or certificate of qualification for practice they may give is equal in 
value or effect to any obtainable from the original and veritable 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, in what must such impolitic 
measures end ] Why, to a complete certainty, in the institution 
of another educational college — one representative of and incor- 
porated with the present Royal Chartered College, having for its 
supporters the general body of the veterinary profession ; and for 
its patrons, men that will in time rally round it equal in rank and 
number to the governors of or subscribers to the present schools. 
Thus, a fearful and much-to-be-regretted schism would be created 
in the veterinary profession; though, in the end, the general body, 
true to itself, must and would prove triumphant. 
Such is a faint and imperfect sketch of the present and pro- 
spective conditions of veterinary affairs, should the schools persist 
in the impolitic and bootless measure of endeavouring to obtain for 
themselves a separate charter. The prospect may, at a distance, 
look pleasing to them. If, however, they will but for one moment 
reflect, they cannot but feel they have no hope of succeeding in 
establishing their charter without the approval and support of the 
profession; and that of such support, so far from having any 
guarantee or promise, they at present lack even the slightest de- 
monstration. Their very own pupils will no sooner have departed 
out of their collegiate walls than they will haste to enrol their 
