MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 241 
prayer. Towards that high and influential body your Memorial- 
ists profess the deepest respect. The Society, however, is by 
distance separated far from the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons. Removed from the possibility of personal 
communication, the Society has not sought to learn the objects 
or intentions of your Memorialists. Your Memorialists are will- 
ing to communicate, and anxious to be observed. No secresy 
is established, no privacy is desired. The wish of your Memo- 
rialists is to be known and to be understood. As a public body, 
they court publicity : as responsible agents, they ask to be in- 
structed. They desire to know the evil they might correct, and 
wish to learn the good they can effect. Nevertheless, the High- 
land >and Agricultural Society have transmitted to the Council of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons no remonstrance ; 
neither have they addressed any complaint. They have asked no 
explanation, and they have requested no statement : they have not 
asserted that which should be done, or expostulated against that 
which had been done : in silence, they have allowed your Memo- 
rialists to proceed, making no proposition, and urging no objection. 
Your Memorialists, therefore, are ignorant of the circumstances 
which cause the Highland and Agricultural Society to be their 
opponents. Your Memorialists lament the fact, and regard it with 
surprise. To your Memorialists, it appears extraordinary that a 
high and honourable Society should undertake a direct and active 
opposition without first investigating the circumstances which 
alone could justify such a proceeding. The Society, however, did 
not commence the movement. The Professor of the Edinburgh 
College had declared his discontent before the Society joined the 
parties petitioning for a new Charter : with that Professor the 
Society is in communication Acts may be misrepresented, and 
motives may be implied ; consequences may be foretold, and in- 
terests may be alarmed. Where one party alone is heard, the 
truth is seldom learnt. The Edinburgh Professor openly threatens, 
and without disguise declares his animosity. From that source 
the Highland Society have derived all the information they 
possess. Deeply solicitous for the advancement of science, the 
Society has been induced, by interested arguments, to adopt a 
course which, on inquiry, your Memorialists feel convinced they 
would immediately relinquish. That Society desires the exalta- 
tion of the veterinary profession ; but, if the prayer they urge 
could possibly be granted, the result would be the elevation of 
individuals upon the degradation of veterinary science. 
In proof that, on inquiry, the Highland and Agricultural Society 
would find they had no just reason to complain, your Memorialists 
confidently refer to the honourable conduct of the Royal Agri- 
