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REGISTRATION. 
By Arthur Cherry, M.R.C.V.S . , Hon . Sec. to the 
Committee, London. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — In the last number of The Veterinarian you have, in 
a Leader, made some comments on the Registration List of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, just issued : you point out 
an error of which I was not previously aware, though it is, as 
you surmise, a clerical one. The list in manuscript was counted, 
and the numbers were entered as 819 : two names were struck out 
in correcting for the printer ; one for being twice entered, the other 
in consequence of the vacancy in the 12th Lancers not being 
gazetted as being filled up, though I was perfectly aware of the 
name of the gentleman appointed ; but as his name did not appear 
in the Army List for the month of April, I was obliged to strike it 
out, though reluctantly. The press of matter prevented my again 
counting over the names after the list was in print, or I should 
have detected the error ; therefore the number as given in your 
Journal is correct, viz. 717. 
But you have yourself made an error in regard to Mr. Mayer’s 
list. It was issued by the Committee of Veterinary Surgeons 
previous to the obtaining of the Charter, and extensively circu- 
lated per post; and though this list was far more correct than the 
College list, yet there were only 116 actual vouchers for the names 
therein. I have Mr. Mayer’s list of those who replied to his cir- 
culars, and, finding that so few replies were sent in, that gentleman 
had recourse to the last list issued by the College, and took the 
entries therein as they stood, merely making such alterations as 
came within his own knowledge, and also adding the names of 
those who had received certificates from the Scotch School. 
Mr. Mayer bestowed a vast deal of labour in the preparation of 
his list, and the highest credit ought duly to have been awarded 
to him, for without the existence of the labours of that gentleman 
I should not have been enabled to have approached to any approxi- 
mation in the result of my labours in this department. 
In the new list the numbers, for which there is a voucher for 
each entry, is ........ 717 
In Mr. Mayer’s list, ditto 116 
In the Veterinary College list ....... 0 
If the list professed to be kept by the Veterinary College of 
those to whom were granted certificates was even an approxima- 
tion to the truth, then the labour of testing it would not be requi- 
