UNRECOGNIZED VETERINARIANS. 
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Members; while the last issued by the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege comprises 826 names*. The apparent falling off in numbers 
in the present list — which for correctness and convenience of refer- 
ence will be found the best hitherto published — is accountable for 
in the rule Mr. Cherry laid down for his own guidance, viz. that 
of refusing to register any name for which he had not either 
actually received a voucher, or else had in his possession accre- 
dited authority. There is no member of the profession who will 
like to be without “ the correct list.” We have authority 
for saying, that it may be obtained per post by application to the 
Registrar. 
We would fain address a word or two to such individuals as 
have chosen to present themselves for examination, as to their 
competence as veterinary practitioners, before other Boards or Com- 
mittees save the one legitimately appointed for that specific pur- 
pose by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
The Charter is either valid or invalid — either a substance or a 
shadow — an instrument of law, or a bugbear set up to deter the 
timid and mislead the unwary. We apprehend, as matters stand 
at present, in the absence of other charters, the fact of the existing 
Charter being operative — so far as a Royal Charter needing par- 
liamentary support can be operative — can neither be questioned 
nor gainsayed. The government authorities — “ the powers that be ” 
- — the public — will not fail to acknowledge it ; nor will they, when 
the fitting season and opportunity shall arrive — and that may 
not prove so very long first — hesitate to recommend the Royal 
Charter to the notice of the Legislature, with a view to its being 
armed with such powers, privileges, and immunities, as shall be 
found consistent with the present order of legislative affairs, and 
consonant with charters of a similar description. Now, suppos- 
ing no other charter be granted by the Queen, and supposing the 
present one be received by Parliament, in what position will those 
individuals find themselves who have chosen or been advised to 
run counter to the chartered body, in having presented themselves 
for examination before an assemblage of persons destitute of any 
* None, we believe, has been printed since 1842. 
