240 MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 
may imply. Lucrative, circumscribed, and irresponsible, it exists 
as a combination of individuals, held together only by the prospect 
of pecuniary saving. The prospectus issued by the establishment 
holds forth no inducement beyond what a trading association would 
embrace. To sell medicine cheap to its members, and to treat the 
animals of its subscribers at a low charge, is the single motive 
upon which it relies for support. By its regulations it has refused 
to co-operate with the veterinary profession, and by its practice 
it competes with the veterinary surgeon — not on the score of 
merit, but on the plea of cheapness. It is fortunate in the pa- 
tronage it enjoys, happy in the wealth it has accumulated, and 
secure in the privacy which surrounds it. Fostered, rich, and 
undisturbed, it has no claim to public support, or any pretence to 
public sympathy. Compared with other colleges, it exhibits rather 
that which calls for correction, than any thing deserving of special 
and extraordinary confirmation. 
While making so serious a statement, your Memorialists have 
been cautious to advance nothing which does not admit of easy 
proof. Nevertheless, your Memorialists beg to express their con- 
viction, that the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College of 
London are not aware of the real condition of the Institution, 
which was originally founded upon public principles. The re- 
membrance of these is probably retained, and the report of the 
Professors may lead to the belief that such principles are observed. 
As gentlemen, the Governors give their confidence to those whom 
they employ : conscious of their own integrity, they refuse to 
entertain suspicion. This feeling your Memorialists admire ; but 
under its operation abuse too often is engendered. By degrees, 
security from inquiry induces neglect, and gradually a noble 
design is perverted. At length, the magnitude of the evil dis- 
inclines those in power to undertake the supervision ; abuse 
grows into a system, and, under the sanction of usage, offence is 
protected. By passing the annual report of the Professors, the 
Governors have appeared to approve acts which, on consideration, 
they might condemn. An inquiry is needed, but none has been 
instituted. The Governors lack the information which would 
acquaint them with the moral and actual position that they hold. 
Their purpose is generous, and their design is noble ; and your 
Memorialists, while representing facts, deny all intention of in- 
sinuating one word against the integrity of motive by which 
the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College of London are 
actuated. 
The gentlemen constituting the Highland and Agricultural 
Society of Scotland appear as Petitioners for a New Charter : 
your Memorialists regret to see such names appended to such a 
