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take place, so that pupils may attend for the purpose of preparing 
themselves to become members of the veterinary profession. 
Having gone through a course of study there, the object is to pass 
an examination, by means of which they may become members 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; just the same as 
young men who intend to qualify themselves for the profession of 
surgeons, and to obtain admission into the Royal College of Sur- 
geons, are in the habit of frequenting one of the hospitals in the 
metropolis as students, with a view of learning their profession, 
and qualifying themselves to pass that examination which is to 
lead to their introduction to the Royal College of Surgeons as 
members of that body. 
Now, the plaintiff, Mr. Mayhew, became a student at this hos- 
pital, called the Veterinary College, in the April of 1843, and he 
entered that profession somewhat late in life : he was, I believe, 
turned of thirty at that period ; but he applied himself with such 
extraordinary assiduity, and such determined and devoted zeal to 
the study of the profession, that before, I believe, much more than 
a year had elapsed, at all events in the second year of his studies — 
and I should tell you that students are obliged to continue there 
two years, I understand, before they are qualified to pass examin- 
ation — before the end of the second year, before he had passed 
his examination, such was the proficiency he had obtained, that 
he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at this very Vete- 
rinary College. He gave very great satisfaction; and notwith- 
standing that his object was to reform certain abuses in the disci- 
pline of the College which he thought had crept in, he became 
so popular with the students, that I believe no course of lectures 
or demonstrations that ever took place there were attended or 
heard by more numerous audiences than those that Mr. Mayhew 
was enabled to collect. He had stipulated that, after a time, the 
theatre of the College should be given up to him for the purpose 
of his demonstrations, which at that time, however, were carrried 
on in the dissecting-room. 
It seems that some differences of opinion took place between him 
and Mr. Spooner as to the extent of the engagements that had been 
entered into with him for giving up the theatre of the College for 
his lectures; and it seems, whether from the popularity of his lec- 
tures or the number of students that he collected around him, that, 
at an early period, some jealousy grew up in the mind of Mr. 
Spooner towards this gentleman. Mr. Spooner refused the use of 
the theatre, some misunderstanding took place, and it ended in Mr. 
Mayhew resigning his situation of demonstrator of anatomy at that 
College, and he withdrew himself from the College. At the same time, 
being anxious to make himself useful to the students whom he had 
