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REMARKS ON THE SHEEP POX. 
alteration in the Charter so obtained by them, and are inflexibly 
resolved upon maintaining it in its present state. 
Your petitioners, therefore, have no alternative but to pray that 
a new Charter may be granted to the veterinary profession, in 
which the Institutions over which they have the honour to preside 
may be represented ; and they have prepared the heads of a Charter 
which they humbly submit will effect that object, and be of mate- 
rial benefit to the veterinary profession and to the public. 
Your petitioners therefore pray that you will be pleased to take 
such proposed heads of a new Charter into your consideration, and 
advise her Majesty to grant such new Charter in that or such other 
form as may seem expedient. 
For the Royal Veterinary College, 
Wm. Sewell, Professor, 
Secretary. 
For the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 
John Hall Maxwell, 
Secretary . 
REMARKS ON THE VARIOLA OVINA, OR SHEEP 
POX. 
By Arthur Cherry, VS. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
“ Tony Lumpkin . — * * * But when I come to open it, its all buzz.” 
She Stoops to Conquer. 
Sir, — A STATEMENT has been put forth in “ The Veterinary 
Record'd on what may be deemed good authority, that a “ direful 
malady, which is new to this country,” has recently manifested 
itself. A very learned account has been given of its characters, 
and an attempt at the history and origin has been made. Now, had 
merely the characters and the origin as far as it was known been 
stated, I should not have felt it necessary to notice the statement 
otherwise than in corroboration of the morbid appearances ; but 
when an attempt is made to dress up an old and tolerably well- 
known malady as a new visitation of disease, then, I must own, I 
am too strongly tempted to oppose such erroneous doctrines, upon 
the ground of simple justice to those parties, whether practitioners 
or owners, v^iose interests are bound up in the welfare of our flocks 
