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Mr. Ellis to the Editors of Ci Tlie Veterinarian 
Gentlemen, 
Having just received a circular from the present Committee 
of Management of the London Veterinary Medical Society, con- 
taining a slanderous anonymous letter, evidently designed to 
vilify the statements which appeared in your last number relative 
to the proceedings in that Society in 1831, I should not do my 
duty were I to be silent. Being at the College in 1831, and pre- 
sent at every meeting, and an eye-witness to the proceedings, I 
have had better opportunities of becoming possessed of the facts 
than any one can have who was not there at the time ; and I am 
bound to state that the report as given in your last number is 
strictly correct, being a faithful narration of the facts as they 
occurred, and not favourable to either party. 
I am, gentlemen, your very obedient servant, 
John Ellis, V.S. 
* Upper Pitt Street, Liverpool, 
May 15th, 1836. 
Rf.ply of Mr. Morton to the Circular. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, 
I certainly should have considered a circular I have ob- 
tained possession of, dated from the Royal Veterinary College, 
May 2, 1830, perfectly unworthy of my notice, because it is ano- 
nymous, were it not that seven of the students of this institu- 
tion have been pleased to affix their names to some prefatory 
remarks, and to say that in its contents they entirely concur. 
The letter is intended as a reply to the account given in your 
last number of the proceedings which have lately taken place 
in the London Veterinary Medical Society ; and which, although 
denounced as “partial, garbled, and untrue,” is, I have reason 
to believe, in its essential points, correct. 
I shall extract one paragraph only for comment, as the re- 
mainder merits little more than contempt from me : it is as 
follows : — 
“ You will observe it is stated that Mr. Vines was ousted from 
the office of librarian, and Mr. Morton elected to it, by a ma- 
jority of one, in 1831. 1 am not personally acquainted with the 
facts which actually occurred upon that occasion ; but I confi- 
dently believe, and it will hereafter be proved, that Mr. Vines 
was most unfairly ousted, and Mr. Morton most unfairly elected 
