246 MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 
fessors, however, have accepted pupils, disregardful of this law, 
promising the gentlemen who paid to enter the College that they 
should be admitted into the profession after two years’ attendance. 
Before the present time arrived, the Professors hoped to have ob- 
tained a new Charter; but, failing in that expectation, they are 
now employed in constituting a Board of Examination, which, it 
is asserted, will issue unprofessional diplomas. 
Such diplomas would be in every sense obnoxious : signed by 
persons selected by the Professors, they will represent only the 
opinions of the Professors concerning their own system of instruc- 
tion. Granted by a Board appointed by individuals, such diplo- 
mas may be given to whomsoever those individuals think proper, 
and therefore will be neither certificates nor proofs of the fitness of 
the pupil to practise. Instruments of such a nature are open to 
every species of abuse ; and, being likely to be confounded with 
the diploma issued by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
are calculated to create a confusion, and keep alive an opposition 
of interests, injurious to the advancement of sciences and preju- 
dicial to the welfare of the public. 
The position which the Professors occupy is irreconcileable with 
any notion of propriety or idea of honour : it is such as should 
unfit them to be petitioners for any public trust. To the prayer 
which obtained the present Charter, the names of the Professors 
were, by their particular requests, appended : to the Petition which 
now begs the Charter should be revoked, the names of the Pro- 
fessors again are attached. At one time they ask for, and, getting 
what they desire, they cry against. They have been elected 
Members of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons : they retain such offices to act for the profession, but against 
the profession, whose trust they have accepted, the Professors see 
proper to exert their influence. Members of the Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, they are petitioners against 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons : their 
complaint, therefore, »is against their own acts. They seek a 
Charter; but, asking to be invested with authority, they are 
studying to bring into contempt the power which a Charter can 
bestow. They beg for that which they display no disposition to 
respect : they oppose the expressed pleasure of the Crown, even 
while they entreat the Throne to grant them extraordinary pri- 
vileges. As Members of the Board of Examiners, which existed 
previous to the grant of the present Charter, they resigned their 
offices as Examiners when the Charter was made known. They 
would now reconstruct the Board, which, by their consent, was 
dispersed. Factious, vacillating, and contradictory, their conduct 
appears most strange. In one petition they complain that appren- 
