MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 243 
have created the Professors of the Colleges ex officio members of the 
Examining Board, thereby giving to those gentlemen the means 
of watching the conduct of the Examiners. To shew such conduct 
has been guided by principles of liberality, it can be proved that 
the Professors have not seen the necessity of their being constantly 
or regularly present when the Board of Examiners has assembled ; 
indeed, for nearly two years they have not availed themselves of 
the privilege thus afforded them. To establish that the present 
system inflicts no injury, the testimony of the Professors themselves 
may be referred to, since, in the proposed draft of a new Charter, 
it is contemplated, so far as the Board of Examination is con- 
cerned, only to confirm the* position which under the present 
College the Professors already occupy. 
To demonstrate that a power of supervision was imperatively 
demanded, a host of evidence can readily be produced. When, pre- 
vious to the grant of the existing Charter, the Professors were 
examiners of their own pupils, the complaint was general that 
diplomas were bestowed upon persons unfitted to enter into 
practice. The period of study was uncertain, and the system of 
teaching was unsatisfactory. The Professors sought to inculcate 
their peculiar ideas, and to these the pupils paid attention, rather 
than to recognized and established principles. The opinions of the 
Professors were in opposition, and frequently the teacher changed 
his notions, denying in one course of Lectures those doctrines 
which in the previous Session had been vehemently insisted upon. 
Diseases of vital importance were passed over, and errors of fatal 
consequence were propagated. Glanders and Rabies, the two dis- 
orders which to the agriculturist and to the human race are of espe- 
cial and peculiar interest, were for years never explained to the 
students. 
At the present time the mode of education is far from satis- 
factory. The anatomical instruction is still deficient ; the Professor 
of Anatomy, instead of lecturing upon the nerves, veins, absorbents, 
muscles, and ligaments, referring the pupils to the dissecting-room 
for the information which it is his appointed duty to afford. 
After more than fifty years, the Professors at the Colleges are 
ignorant of the anatomy of the animals, which a veterinary educa- 
tion, properly conducted, ought to embrace. In the London College 
the skeleton of the dog has the bones placed in wrong situations. 
In the dissection-room, donkeys only are dissected. The carcasses 
of sheep, pigs, or oxen, are not to be there seen : even living spe- 
cimens of such animals are rare ; since one pupil, in answer to the 
complaints of the Chairman of the Examining Board, that the 
replies elicited upon cattle pathology were unsatisfactory, openly 
stated that, during an attendance of two years at the Royal Vete- 
