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the various means at their command to secure its advancement ; 
and thus would be achieved a signal victory over the grievous 
annoyances to which we are now continually subjected. 
The schools, now big with self-importance, would then receive 
the reward they appear so long to have studied to deserve. A 
few years would find them fallen beneath the significance of a 
body determined in the worthy ambition of raising themselves to 
that elevated position whence empiricism and all its attendants are 
viewed with ridicule, contempt, and disgust. 
Your’s very truly. 
Horse Infirmary, Castle Street 
April 10th, 1848. 
VETERINARY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION. 
By Mr. W. Whittle. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — I n your last number there is an anonymous advertisement 
respecting the appointment of “ certain Boards of Examination,’ 
and letters from Mr. Mayhewand Mr. Cherry on the same subject, 
with reference to which I beg to offer a few remarks, . hoping you 
will insert them in your next publication. 
I am one of the numerous individuals intending to present my- 
self at the ensuing examination here, and, if successful in passing, 
shall obtain one of the “ certificates or diplomas,” which the ad- 
vertisement states, “ are not valid, and will not confer any of the 
rights, privileges, or immunities granted to the body politic and 
corporate,” and will not “ be any guarantee of the qualification of 
the person practising.” Will you, Sir, be kind enough to inform 
others, and myself, who cannot attach any importance to these 
statements, what there is in the Charter which “ renders certificates 
or diplomas not valid,” when granted by other boards of examina- 
tion than those for which it provides? Is there any thing in the 
Charter which prevents men who are not members of the body 
politic from practising the veterinary art, when they gain the con- 
fidence of the public? Having pursued the curriculum of study 
entitling me to appear before the Board of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, if, for my own reasons, I prefer presenting 
myself before another examining body of superior efficiency and 
respectability, what is there in the Charter entitling any one to call 
in question my “qualification” as a practitioner of the veterinary 
