ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 591 
names in the true and only acknowledged College of Veterinary 
Surgeons ; a college by which pupils always have found, and always 
will find, themselves kindly, liberally, and justly treated, and 
which in due time will provide for them such privileges and im- 
munities as are at present enjoyed by the professors of the sister 
science of medicine. 
For our own part, we have all along breathed peace , and our 
voice is still for peace. Intestine war will but tear to pieces 
a profession but recently, and as yet but feebly, cemented toge- 
ther by a charter of incorporation. Disagreement, dissensions, 
quarrelling, wrangling, cannot end in any good ; and if the veteri- 
nary profession be constituted of such heterogeneous and un-assi- 
milating ingredients as cannot, under even ‘favourable circum- 
stances, amalgamate, how is it possible or likely it can command 
either the sympathy or support of the public at large! After 
every and the fullest consideration of matters, we can come to no 
other conclusion but that the schools may, without any sacrifice 
on their part either of honour or emolument, subscribe to the pre- 
sent Charter; nay, we are of opinion that they cannot, in the end, 
help doing so ; and we feel quite assured that in so doing, in the 
long run, so far from regret, they will experience unmingled, per- 
manent satisfaction in having pursued so wise and salutary a line 
of professional policy. 
The ink could hardly have been dry upon the foregoing re- 
marks — penned on the 9th ult. — when we received the following 
excellent running commentary on articles contained in our former 
Number. Every body acquainted with his writing and speaking 
will recognize in them the manly upright style of Mr. Tombs : — 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian 
Stratford-on-Avon, Sept. 10, 1846. 
Gentlemen, — I TAKE this opportunity, through the medium of 
your journal, in tendering my cordial thanks, with that of several 
other practitioners whom I have conversed with lately, to the 
members of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons for nobly resisting the encroachments attempted on our 
Charter. Undoubtedly, the members of the Council would be sup- 
