628 
NOVELTIES IN SHOEING. 
Cr. 
By half double fee for one 
pupil, half having been 
paid at the general exa- 
mination 1 10 
By double fee for one pupil 
not having been examined 
before 2 2 0 
3 3 0 
Dr. 
By fees to Board of Exa- 
miners, and incidental 
expenses 23 0 0 
Deduct ...... 330 
Loss to funds of R.C.V.S. 19 17 0 
Mr. Barrowman states that no reason was given why the appli- 
cation was refused. One was however given, namely, the increased 
expense, and, moreover, the option was given to the applicants of 
being examined before the London Board of Examiners without any 
extra fees. So much for exparte statements. 
Official documents exist to prove that my statements were the 
correct ones, and I cannot help thinking that official documents are 
worth more attention than interested personal statements. 
I must say a few words for myself, and then close the contro- 
versy. I beg it distinctly to be understood that T am not the 
“ champion” of the Council. I merely submit my own opinions 
based on my own views, which opinions I unhesitatingly give in 
my place at the Council, and which did I not do, I should consider 
myself unworthy to fill a post to which I have been, unsought 
for on my part, elected. 
I have neither time nor inclination to enter into a controversy 
with those who only seek for a ground of dispute, but I hold my- 
self as free as any other to make remarks on any subject which 
may appear to me to be requisite. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant, 
W. Arthur Cherry, 
Member of the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
NOVELTIES IN SHOEING. 
By a Practitioner. 
I SEND you an account of two methods that have lately been 
devised, — the one to improve the mode of shoeing, the other a 
supposed superior means of preventing concussion. They may 
perhaps amuse your readers, for, alas ! they have proved to be 
failures. They are also an illustration of the principle of “ every 
