THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXI, 
No. 245. 
MAY 1848. 
Third Series, 
No. 5. 
MEMORIAL. 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey , Bart., Her Majesty's 
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. 
The Memorial of the Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons, 
Humbly sheweth, 
That your Memorialists lament the necessity they are under of 
trespassing once more on your attention. They have, however, 
no choice. The rights which they are elected to protect are 
attacked, and the little which is possessed by the profession by 
whom they are appointed is endangered. Under such circumstances 
to be silent would be to betray the interest your Memorialists are 
bound by duty to uphold. 
That your Memorialists are not aware that their conduct has 
provoked the opposition to the Charter under which they act. They 
have studied to forbear and to concilitate. They have made con- 
cessions, and been patient under aggression. They have been 
desirous of elevating the profession over which they preside, and 
anxious to promote the science to represent the interests of which 
they are elected. They have exercised their authority with caution, 
and used the power invested in them with prudence. 
That your Memorialists are not conscious of having done wrong. 
They humbly ask what interest they have injured, or who has just 
reason to complain of their conduct ! The veterinary profession 
give them support, and the public have not found fault with their 
acts. 
That your Memorialists know only of one source from which 
any opposition has emanated. That opposition sprang from and is 
upheld by motives which cannot be defended upon public grounds. 
It is a movement kept alive by individuals. Under the pretence 
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