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unreplied to, might produce impressions incompatible with the 
truth, considered that when they had ascertained and replied to the 
demands of the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, and 
had put the Secretary of State for the Home Department in full 
possession of their past proceedings, that the time had arrived 
when it was desirable that some step should be taken in order to 
prevent those mis-statements, misrepresentations, and unfounded 
charges, being again and again reiterated. For this purpose they 
decided on laying a statement of their own views, wishes, and in- 
tentions, before the Home Secretary ; and to do this they decided, 
after the most grave and mature deliberation, that a Committee 
should be appointed to prepare a memorial to be presented at the 
Home Office, and Messrs. Mayhew, Ernes, W. A. Cherry, and 
Gabriel, were named as constituting the said Committee. These 
gentlemen proceeded to their task steadily and decidedly, bearing 
fully in mind and duly regarding the grave charge entrusted to 
their hands. The consequence was, the document they placed be- 
fore the Council was adopted without a single material alteration; a 
proof most gratifying to the Committee of their entire concurrence 
in, and full approbation of, their labours. 
[“ The Memorial” will be found printed in our Number for Decem- 
ber last — vol. xx, p. 694 et sequent .] 
This Memorial was forwarded to Sir George Grey, and received 
the following satisfactory reply : — 
Sir, Whitehall , 10$ Nov. 1846. 
I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 4th instant, transmitting a Memorial from the President and 
"Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; and I am to inform 
you, that no formal application has been yet addressed to Sir George Grey for 
a new Charter from the Royal Veterinary College since the proceedings re- 
ferred to in your letter of the 5th of September, and that, in the event of his 
receiving such an application, a communication will be made to the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons before it is granted. 
I am, Sir, 
Thos. Turner , Esq., 
President of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons , 
311, Regent Street. 
Your obedient servant, 
S. M. Phillips. 
The registry of the members of the veterinary profession being, 
as you are doubtless all well aware, most defective, your Council 
thought it desirable that a new list should be prepared, giving not 
