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THE LONDON VETERINARY 
Mr. Mayer thus writes: l< A letter having appeared in the last 
number of The Veterinarian, addressed to the editor of the 
Lancet, and signed ‘ A Veterinary Student,’ purporting to con- 
tain an answer to your account of the L. V. M. S. in the previous 
number, I esteem it my duty to contradict some of ' A Veterinary 
Student’s’ statements, knowing them to be contrary to truth, and 
to testify, as far as my personal knowledge goes, to the accuracy 
of your statements. 
“ Having been an attendant, in my capacity as a member, of 
the society’s meetings during the session 1834 and a part of 
1835, I beg leave to state, 1st, That the society was not then 
‘ a close corporation therefore * A Veterinary Student’s’ assertion 
that it was such up to 4 a few weeks past’ is incorrect ; nor were 
the committee ‘ the tools of Mr. Morton.’ 
2dly, “ Your statement that 4 four years passed on, during 
which Mr. Vines lost no opportunity of ridiculing the proceed- 
ings of the society, disavowing all connexion with it, and endea- 
vouring to persuade the students from belonging to it, and oc- 
casionally succeeding in that attempt,’ is (I am arriving at a 
conclusion in consequence of what I have heard from Mr. Vines’s 
own lips) perfectly correct. It therefore happens unfortunately 
for 4 A Veterinary Student’ that the ‘ paragraph’ quoted is not 
' utterly untrue ;’ neither have you been deceived by your ' infor- 
mant,’ nor 4 volunteered’ a * fib’ of your own ; but a ‘ Veterinary 
Student’ is precisely in one of these predicaments himself. 
44 Hoping that' A Veterinary Student,’ when he next appears 
before the profession in his anonymous garb, will have more 
regard to gentlemanly feeling, and a stricter adherence to truth, 
I remain, &c.” 
The society has now adjourned until November next, but not 
before Mr. Bracy Clark had resigned his office as president. In 
what terms that letter was couched we pretend not to know ; 
but it drew from the committee a reply accepting his resignation, 
and deploring that he should have thought proper to have used 
the language which he applied to their teachers and examiners. 
It was then determined that Mr. Blaine should be solicited to 
become their president. We have not yet heard what was the 
result of this application. 
We do understand, however, that many of the students, and 
