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flock to him, like ourselves, to see with their own eyes, and be 
convinced of the truth of what they have read. Mr. Dickinson’s 
kind and polite attention to all who come to him in the name of 
Agricultural Science knows no bounds : how he contrives to spare 
time, from his extensive business engagements in London, to shew 
and to explain with a patience becoming a paid lecturer, all he 
has done, and all he hopes to accomplish, is to us little short of a 
marvel. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Although it be argued, as we understand it has been, and by 
high authority, too, in the profession, that our Charter confers no 
power upon the Council to prescribe the form and measure of 
veterinary education, no doubt will or can be raised concerning 
the power given that body by the Charter of organising their own 
examining board, and setting any limits they choose, and demand- 
ing what profundity of knowledge they may deem proper, in the 
examinations. On this point, at least, the language of the Charter 
is positive enough — And the Council shall and may make any 
orders, rules, and by-laws, for fixing and determining “ the times 
and places and manner of examining students who shall have been 
educated at the Royal Veterinary College of London, or the 
Veterinary College of Edinburgh, or such other Veterinary College 
as hereinbefore mentioned, and who may be desirous to become 
members of the said body politic and corporate ; and for regulating 
the nature and extent of such examinations , and for the appoint- 
ment of persons to examine and determine upon the fitness and 
qualifications of such students, and for the admission or rejection 
of such students as members of the said body politic and corpo- 
rate,” &c. If, therefore, it be in the power of either the London 
or Edinburgh or any other “ recognised” school or “college” to 
send candidates before the board of examiners, as constituted and 
instructed by the Council, for examination, without such certificates 
