250 MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART. 
stantly subjected to the factious opposition of the Professors. 
Although time has not yet been allowed to judge finally how the 
Charter may work for the benefit of veterinary science, yet, up to 
the present period, under the direction of your Memorialists, it has 
given more satisfaction than could have been reasonably anticipated. 
It has done this, notwithstanding the interruption to which it has 
been exposed : that interruption, your Memorialists confess, has in 
a great measure crippled th^r actions. When they ought to have 
been engaged in consolidating their measures and considering the 
requirements of the body over which they preside, they have been 
distracted by boisterous agitation, forced to answer groundless 
accusation, and obliged to study to defend the rights which, en- 
trusted to their charge, are unscrupulously attacked. 
Your Memorialists, depending upon your approved and known 
love of equity, trust their case with confidence, Honourable Sir, in 
your hands. All that they have stated they are ready to prove ; 
whatever they have done they are prepared to justify : they seek 
inquiry — they beg that the conduct and the assertions of their op- 
ponents be investigated — they entreat that a fair, fuli, and thorough 
examination of every circumstance be entered into. They re- 
spectfully solicit that the whole case may be sifted, in order that 
Her Majesty may be informed whether your Memorialists have 
violated the trust confided in them by the existing Charter, and 
whether the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have fulfilled 
the intent of their foundation, or taken care to ensure the proper 
conduct of the School over which they preside. 
Signed, on behalf of the Council, 
Thomas Turner, President. 
* LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
Neurotomy. 
[Continued from page 184.] 
Improvements in Neurotomy, since its first introduction, 
have been suggested, and some of them have turned out of merit 
enough to be carried into practice. The chief objects in view in 
the performance of such an operation are expertness and neatness. 
