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firm resolve to do full justice to each individual pupil. 
The labours of the teachers must be fully recognized, and 
their endeavours to elevate the profession by imparting 
scientific knowledge to the students must be backed by 
the examiners. The time has passed by when courts of 
examiners can place the hard-working and intelligent pupil 
who has been regular in his attendance upon the lectures, and 
neglected no opportunity of acquiring information, on a par 
with the idler who comes before them well made up for the 
occasion by the “ man wot grinds.” This has been the bane 
of every profession, and the remedy lies entirely in the hands 
of the examiners. 
To the general qualifications of the gentleman who has 
been recently appointed as the new examiner, we make no 
objection. Both his position and his name will give weight 
to the diploma; and while things are managed as at present, 
there is no one that we would prefer to see added to the 
board. 
The filling up 'of the void created by the death of Mr. 
Percivall* is, however, a matter essentially different from the 
election of an eminent London practitioner of long standing 
and great respectability for an examiner. The board wants a 
practical anatomist, and sound physiologist, one whose 
scientific acquirements are based upon long-continued inves- 
tigation. If w 7 e except those whose province it is to impart 
daily instruction in the class-room, there are but few men in 
the veterinary profession who possess the requisite qualifi- 
cations, The court of examiners, in other scientific commu- 
nities, is composed of those who are, or have been teachers, 
because it has been found that no men are so well suited for 
examiners. Teachers of veterinary science are by the charter 
prevented from examining their own pupils, a principle with 
which we fully accord. It is, nevertheless, worth while to 
inquire into the practical working of this prohibitory clause. 
There are, as is well-knowm, but two colleges or educational 
institutions belonging -to our profession, one of these being 
in London, the other in Edinburgh. For all the purposes 
we have named, those schools might as well be separated by 
