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THE MEMORIAL. 
openly urged by the professors in the hope of nullifying the 
Charter. Such accusation was plainly met and clearly refuted ; 
yet, by the professors personally no retraction of the charge has 
been made; although, at the interview with the Governors of the 
Royal Veterinary College, the members of the veterinary profession 
were by the Governors most fully and freely exonerated from this 
unjust accusation. 
The Professors have in their public capacity offered every 
obstruction to the operation of the regulations which the Council 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons were empowered by 
the Charter to enact ; and to such a reckless extent has this opposi- 
tion been carried, that the Council have, in one instance, been 
obliged to pass a special vote to rectify the confusion which had 
been thereby created in the examination of the pupils at the 
Edinburgh School. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have 
endeavoured by every means and the most studied forbearance to 
meet the wishes and views of the Professors, but are pained to add 
they have not been successful in their attempts. 
The present movement against the existing Charter was in- 
stigated by the Professors ; and on inquiry it will be found, that 
neither the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, nor the 
Councils of the Agricultural Societies, would have moved in the 
matter save for their representations. 
The petition against the Charter was concocted by the Professors, 
many of the statements contained in which are wholly fictitious. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons would 
acknowledge superior ability, and have no desire to deny the claims 
of genius ; but they cannot admit that the Professors are by their 
talent placed above the generality of the veterinary profession. 
As literary men, the Professors are unknown ; and the works from 
which the pupils at both the Colleges study are the productions of 
Members of the Council and of the profession. As practical men, 
the Professors have no special repute; and as discoverers in science, 
they have no fame. The Professors are in no particular dis- 
tinguished as men of genius or learning, and your memorialists, 
therefore, see no ground upon which their superiority can be 
established. 
The motives which instigate the Professors will, if sifted, be 
found to be of a personal and pecuniary nature : they seek authority 
and exaltation, and they want to increase the number of pupils by 
rendering the admission into the profession easy, and, in some 
degree, under their command. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
deeming that the power given them by the Charter was granted 
