362 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
and be well acquainted with the structure of the horse and 
other domesticated animals. I have no doubt that there are 
many other attainments which educated veterinary surgeons 
require, but which do not at this moment occur to me. 
However, as I have said, Mr. Field and others, being 
desirous of putting the veterinary profession upon the 
same footing with other professions, petitioned Her Majesty 
for the establishment of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons, and in the year 1844, Her Majesty was pleased to 
grant a charter for that purpose ; and from that time the Col- 
lege has had the sole privilege of granting veterinary diplomas ; 
so that now the veterinary schools stand pretty much in the 
same relation to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, as 
the hospitals of London do to the Royal College of Surgeons. 
There is no doubt that the establishment of this College 
has been of the utmost benefit to the science. The Council 
has been most judicious in the selection of Examiners and 
Presidents, in proof of which, I need only give you the 
names of Mr. Turner, Mr. Robinson, Professor Sewell, Mr. 
Goodwin, and last, though not least, our excellent friend 
Mr. Field. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, Mr. Field’s family 
has been long distinguished as veterinary surgeons. You 
are all aware that his father was one of the most eminent 
men in London, and his brother, Mr. John Field, was 
also a man of the highest attainments, and I am happy 
to say that your President is training up his two sons 
in the same profession, and I hope they will live to emu- 
late their father in his good deeds. It is hardly neces» 
sary for me to tell you, how well Mr. Field has filled the 
presidential chair of the College. You all know his urbanity 
and his great liberality, and how anxious he has been to 
elevate the profession. I need only refer you to the conver- 
sazione which he was the first to suggest in connexion with 
this College, by means of which the members of the different 
scientific bodies of London were associated together; thus 
bringing his own profession into union with them. (Cheers.) 
If I wanted any other instance of his efforts to benefit the 
profession, I might appeal to the meeting this day ; to the 
honour which His Royal Highness has done Mr. Field in 
coming amongst us ; and to the honour you yourselves have 
done him in attending in such numbers on this occasion. 
N one of you can doubt that Mr. Field occupies a distinguished 
position in his profession, and he has attained to this not 
only by his talents and abilities, but by a course of strict 
honesty and integrity. There is no man in London who has 
had a more extensive practice ; and I believe in one branch 
