THE MEMORIAL. 697 
ceives a diploma who has not been fully and equally tested upon 
all the recognised branches of study. 
The conduct of the Colleges has been in some degree thereby 
improved. At the London College lectures were this year de- 
livered upon glanders and upon rabies, diseases so fatal to human 
and animal life. 
At the Edinburgh College, since the establishment of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, an Anatomical Demonstrator has 
been engaged, and a Lecturer on Chemistry appointed. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have 
received no complaints as to the mode of conducting the exami- 
nations, but, on the contrary, are happy to state that individuals, 
after passing the ordeal, have expressed and published sentiments 
of satisfaction at the manner of proceeding of their Board of Ex- 
aminers. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons can 
with satisfaction refer to the course they have pursued. They 
have courted advice, and, where they might presume to do so, have 
solicited opinions; they have declared their proceedings public, 
and thrown their meetings open to the body of the profession ; 
they have disclaimed secrecy, and ask for no protection but what 
rectitude of conduct and uprightness of principle can afford. To all 
communications and suggestions they have ever paid the most 
considerate attention ; and they are happy to say they are honoured 
by the confidence of the profession over the interests of which they 
are appointed to preside. 
Conscious of having so done, and being so supported, it was with 
surprise that the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons heard certain parties had been attempting to overthrow the 
power which Her Majesty had seen occasion to establish, nor do 
they understand the grounds upon which these parties base their 
application for a new Charter. 
In the expectation of ascertaining the causes of complaint, and 
of explaining more fully their conduct and motives, your memo- 
rialists sought an interview with the Governors of the Royal Ve- 
terinary College : the obtainment of that interview was mainly 
due to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the President 
of the Royal Veterinary College. 
At that interview, the condescension with which his Royal 
Highness was pleased to honour the representatives of the Council, 
and the courtesy which the Governors of the College displayed, 
have left a deep and lasting impression upon the minds of your 
memorialists, combined with a sincere regret that they are on 
principle unable to comply with the wishes of those towards whom 
they acknowledge the most profound respect. 
