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away, and they wonder at themselves, and acknowledge and 
endeavour to repair their error. So it will be here ere long: but, 
as will presently appear, the error which these young men have 
committed will not be easily repaired, and will give them cause 
for lasting regret. 
On the 26th of this month, another and more laboured defence 
— but an anonymous one — of the Committee appeared, and was 
circulated among the governors and the Examining Committee. 
The following is an extract from the introductory paragraph : — 
u It was not our intention to have published the late transactions 
of the London Veterinary Medical Society, but for a mendacious 
article, pretending to be a report of its proceedings, which lately 
appeared in The Veterinarian, for which, we presume, the 
* sole proprietor’ of that Journal has received, or at least expects 
to get, value. The objects of the article in question were, 
doubtless, to throw discredit on the Society as a body, and on 
Mr. Vines individually; to break up the one, and break down 
the other : but we think the worthy individuals who purchased, 
and the ‘ impartial author’ who concocted or invented this no- 
table scheme, will be equally disappointed when the governors. 
Medical Examining Committee, and the veterinary profession, 
shall have perused the report which we now submit to them, and 
which we pledge ourselves contains ‘the truth, the whole truth, 
and nothing but the truth.’ ” 
Am I expected to say more with regard to this, than that, while 
I despise I pity the writer? In an impetuous and misguided 
young man, I can forgive much ; but the time will come when he 
will not forgive himself for this infamous, cowardly, anonymous 
attack. Being once known, can he ever rank among honourable 
writers ? 
The readers of The Veterinarian will be anxious to have 
a brief history of the after proceedings of the Society. Some 
parts of them they will preserve among their Vetermaria Curiosa: 
they will not have choicer specimens : they are extracted from 
the second defence of the Committee. First stands the letter in 
which Mr. Bracy Clark accepts the honour conferred upon him: — 
<f 7, Taunton Place, Regent’s Park, 
4th Month, 18th, 1836. 
“ Bracy Clark, with his kind respects to the secretary and wor- 
thy members of the honourable Veterinary Medical Society, has 
to thank them most sincerely for the distinguished notice they 
have taken of him in electing him their President. He rather 
fears that years of labour and advancing age may have somewhat 
' damped his wing;’ yet his fondness for the art and its vota- 
ries, and for those who are sincerely engaged in it : he would be 
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