VETERINARY APPRENTICESHIP ADVOCATED. 
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am still more astonished now that I learn, by Mr. W. A. Cherry’s 
letter, that there has been a special examination of two old students 
allowed at London ; still more, that there is nothing mentioned 
in their case to shew the urgency of it — nay, on the contrary, as 
the one appears to have been a fifty and the other a sixteen years 
student, it appears strange that they could have not waited for 
three months (the regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Exa- 
miners at London). There is something in this very like favourit- 
ism ; and, until I am shewn that there was some special necessity 
in their case more urgent than that of my relative, I must consider 
the Council to have shewn the grossest partiality. But this is not 
all: it seems to be the opinion of Mr. W. A. Cherry, that because 
the London College was in the habit of holding four examinations 
every year, and the Edinburgh College only one, this practice is 
to be continued ; and that, to avoid this inconvenience, the only 
remedy is, for the students to make their election which of the two 
schools they choose to study at. 1 had always understood that the 
Charter had placed both the Schools on precisely the same footing ; 
but if the Council are all of the same mind with Mr. W. A. Cherry, 
or if they do not repudiate his statements, it is high time, in my 
opinion, that each School should have its own separate charter. 
Kirkaldy, Sep. 21, 1846. 
I am, 
Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient servant, 
James Barrowman, V.S. 
VETERINARY APPRENTICESHIP ADVOCATED. 
By J. Tombs, M.R.C.V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
Gentlemen, — I AM induced again thus early to intrude upon 
your valuable pages to record my unqualified disapprobation of 
your opinions in reference to the apprenticeship clause as esta- 
blished by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons. You appear to think (according to the Leader of the last 
month’s VETERINARIAN) that “ one year” will be a sufficient 
length of time for a person destined for the veterinary profession 
to acquire practical knowledge previous to his becoming a*pupil at 
the Veterinary College. I disagree with you for wishing to cur- 
tail the period of apprenticeship to so limited a period, for the 
following reasons : — First ; suppose a young man is intended for 
