MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 245 
To the Edinburgh College your Memorialists decline to make 
any allusion beyond what may be contained in the previous com- 
munication which they have had the honour of laying before you. 
That Establishment is the property of an individual, who is teacher 
and proprietor of the School ; and, being so, your Memorialists 
humbly request to be informed what right it can confer privi- 
leging a private person to petition for public grants ? 
Having endeavoured to point out the different parties petition- 
ing against the present Charter granted to the veterinary profes- 
sion, your Memorialists respectfully entreat you to contrast them. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is 
a public body; the Members ^ire elected; their meetings are open, 
and their proceedings are reported. They have the support of a 
profession to whom they are responsible for their conduct. Their 
offices are honorary, and they have no individual interests to pro- 
mote, or any pecuniary advantages to advocate, beyond such as 
may by them be shared in common with the profession of which 
they constitute a part. 
The Professors at the Royal Veterinary College are appointed, 
and hold their offices removed from inspection or control. They 
have their gains to instigate them, and their claims to superiority 
of station to defend. They plead for no party but themselves, and 
they advocate no cause which the profession approves. Their 
actions are irresponsible, and their conduct is subjected to no revi- 
sion. Their services are paid, and they have personal motives for 
continuing the agitation they have commenced. 
That agitation has been by the Professors maintained without 
regard to honour or respect to truth. Slander has been unscru- 
pulously indulged in ; and after it had been refuted, the Professors 
were not ashamed to repeat it. Vexatious opposition has been 
on all occasions displayed. They have confused the deliberations 
of the Council, and interrupted the business of the General Meet- 
ings of the Body Corporate. They have made no effort to test the 
efficacy of the existing Charter, or sought to discover how far it 
might be worked for the advantage of the veterinary profession 
and for the benefit of the public. From them, your Memorialists 
have heard only of themselves. 
Your Memorialists can perceive nothing in the conduct of the Pro- 
fessors which merits approbation, but much which every honourable 
mind must condemn The Professors have been and are Members 
of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. They 
took part in framing the Bye-Laws applying to the pupils ; such 
laws were therefore known to the Professors. One of those re- 
gulations ordained that candidates for diplomas after the year 1847 
should have served an apprenticeship of three years. The Pro- 
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