MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 
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The School is subjected to no supervision. Though ostensibly 
founded to advance veterinary science, it is secured from the 
possibility of inspection. The lectures are not published : no 
plan of study is laid down. The Professors teach that which 
and so much as they please. Their doctrines may be wrong, but 
there are no means of correcting them : their teaching may be 
dangerous, but there is no power of restraining it: their informa- 
tion may be limited, but there is no ability to improve it : their 
industry may be deficient, but there is no authority to stimulate it 
— they have only to report to gentlemen who, however enlightened, 
can hardly be supposed to know all the points which a peculiar 
education should embrace. The veterinary profession, who might 
judge correctly of the fitness of the instruction and the qualifica- 
tions of the instructors, are by a special vote excluded. No 
member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons may be- 
come even a subscriber to the Institution. 
The School attached to the Royal Veterinary College is a mere 
appendage to that Institution. It is not upheld upon any public 
grounds, neither does it confer any gratuitous advantages. For 
all it gives it demands payment. The pupils pay for that which 
they receive. The money thus obtained goes to the Professors : 
the Professors so remunerated attend to the animals of the Sub- 
scribers ; the School, consequently, enables the Governors to retain 
the professional services of the Professors at a small tax upon the 
funds of the College. The School is a source of profit, and a 
benefit to the Institution. It is no more than a remunerative 
speculation, and has no claims to the consideration of the State. 
Its appointments are strangely deficient: there is no apartment in 
which the Students could wait the commencement, of the lectures, 
or seek shelter from the inclemency of the weather. No Reading- 
room or Library is connected with the College. The Museum is 
locked against the students, and no prize of any kind is offered to 
stimulate the exertions of the pupils. Compared with a barrack 
or a charity school, the Royal Veterinary College would seem to 
offer the poorer accommodation and the least incentive to study. 
If the Institution presents little entitling it to be regarded as a 
College, it certainly exhibits nothing approaching to a Hospital ; 
in which character, however, by a general mistake, it is com- 
monly viewed. There is no charity attached to the Institution ; 
neither can any but Subscribers share the benefits it is presumed 
to bestow. It does not pretend to generosity, and the animals of 
the poor are not admitted inside its walls. It is strictly a private 
society, supported by individuals induced to join it solely by the 
offer of pecuniary advantages. Its members require no recom- 
mendation beyond what the payment of the annual subscription 
