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MR. CHERRY IN REPLY TO MESSRS. WATERS AND 
B ARRO WM AN*. 
To the Editors of 11 The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
As you have done me the honour to place in my hands the 
letter of a Mr. Barwoman or Barrowman, I shall in my reply to 
that letter also include Mr. Waters, jun.’s epistle, which was in- 
serted in the last number of your Journal. 
The same remark applies to both, that they are personal rather 
than argumentative, though this is a point too peurile to notice but 
with a smile. 
I stated simply the facts founded upon the strongest evidence, 
viz. truth. There is not a single statement in my letter which has 
given, it appears, so much offence, but had ample documents to sup- 
port it : nay, more, I could have made it a very much stronger 
condemnatory statement, but I had no wish to hurt the feelings of 
any one ; I only meant to state simple facts. 
Mr. J. Osborne gives a simple statement in an official return just 
received, which I shall take the liberty of inserting without any 
comment. “ Diploma not yet received in consequence of 1 ro- 
fessor Dick neglecting to send some certificates , as stated by Mr. 
Gabriel.” 
I shall only now submit for the information of the veterinary 
body the expense incurred by the Council in calling a special 
meeting of the Board of Examiners ; and leave those gentlemen to 
judge for themselves, whether the Council would or would not 
be justified in spending funds not their own, but placed under their 
charge for the purpose of general benefit, and not for the advantage 
of individuals ; and particularly when those by whom the favour 
was sought were men who, with a single exception, had proved 
themselves unequal to obtain diplomas at the regular examinations 
at the proper periods ; for, in the records of the Edinburgh exami- 
nations, it stands that there are two who have been THRICE rejected. 
To add the name of one who had not before presented himself 
for examination is a mere subterfuge, as either the party was not 
qualified, or not prepared for the annual examination, which oc- 
curred so short a time before the application for a special exami- 
nation. 
I now give a debtor and creditor account of a special examination, 
simply premising that the fee for examination for Scotland is, and 
always has been, one guinea, which would be double for a special 
examination. 
* The subject of this controversy is exhausted. — E d. Vet. 
