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such as have been up cramming. Turkeys the same. Facts such 
as these appear to point out to us the impolicy of keeping in a 
state of immoveable confinement our fattening animals : were they 
kept in places where, along with the required warmth and exclu- 
sion, they could take a little exercise, we are of opinion their meat 
might prove of better quality, while the fattening process might 
not thereby be either protracted or delayed. What the butchers 
estimate most is the marble beef, as they call it — the interlarding 
of the fat with the lean ; and this, we are of opinion, would be b,est 
insured by allowing the beast, up at fat, space sufficient to take 
moderate exercise. 
By this time the members of the profession have read and di- 
gested the Memorial of the President and Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons to the Right Plonourable Sir 
George Grey, as contained in our impression for last month. It 
having been sent to us for insertion with a request that we would 
refrain from comment on it, we printed it without remark : a month, 
however, having since elapsed, and an answer to the Memorial 
having in the interim been received, we imagine we are now at 
liberty to have our say on the matter. 
With the Memorial itself we are well pleased. In plain but 
forcible language it sets forth the ameliorations made in “ the con- 
ditions of the veterinary profession 1st, by the reform of the 
Examining Committees both of London and Edinburgh, a reform 
which has been followed by improved systems of education in the 
respective schools : — 2dly, by framing a code of by-laws, by virtue 
of which something like form and substance has been given to an 
“ airy nothing.” And all this, and more, the Council have brought 
to pass, not in secret conclave, but in open committee, in rooms 
whose doors have been unlocked to the profession, and, moreover, 
have published their proceedings, month after month, in the pages 
of The Veterinarian. To which proceedings — or at least to 
such resolutions and laws as have arisen out of them — the Council 
have the satisfaction of adding no demur or objection has been 
made by the profession at large ; none, in fact, whatever has 
reached them save from quarters where, in the language of the 
Memorial, “ the circumstance justifies little surprise.” 
