ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
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Abstract of the Charter applied for by the President and Governors 
of the Royal Veterinary College of London , and the President 
and Directors of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland. 
[Published in The Veterinarian for March of the current year, vol. xxi, 
p. 117-122.] 
Sufficient data for consideration having thus been obtained, a 
Committee, consisting of Messrs. T. W. Mayer, A. Cherry, W. 
Ernes, and E. Gabriel, was nominated to consider and prepare a 
reply to the same ; — their Report, unanimously adopted by the 
Council, was as follows : — 
[As published in The Veterinarian for March of the current year, vol. xxi, 
p. 122-125.] 
Ere, however, this reply had been transmitted to the Home 
Office, the following note was received : — 
Sir, Whitehall , 8th of February, 1848. 
I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to request, with reference to 
the Petition of the Royal Veterinary College of London, and the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland (a copy of which was transmitted to you 
on the 15th of Sept., 1847), that you will inform the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons that Sir George Grey is ready to receive any 
explanation or counter-statement which the Council may be desirous of mak- 
ing with respect to the allegations in the Petition, the petitioners having 
renewed their application for the Charter. 
I am, Sir, 
Thos. Turner , Esq., Your obedient servant, 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Denis Le Marchant. 
Surgeons, 311, Regent-street. 
In consequence of which, the reply was immediately forwarded 
with the following note from the President : — 
Sir, 311, Regent-street, 14 th February, 1848. 
I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 8th 
instant, and enclose the reply prepared by the Council to the leading points 
of the Petition and Charter lying at the Home Office. As, however, the 
application has been renewed, and as there are several points yet unanswered, 
the Council have the subject still under their serious deliberation, and are 
preparing a more detailed reply for Sir George Grey’s consideration ; or, 
should an explanation to yourself be more convenient, I will do myself the 
honour of waiting on you at any time you may appoint. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
Thos. Turner, 
To Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart., President of the Royal College 
Home Office. of Veterinary Surgeons. 
The President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
however, and its Council, were not likely to require a second 
