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It also appears to me, and to many others, that gross injustice 
will, on the present plan, be done to the articled pupil, when the 
man who knows nothing of our profession, and whose admission to 
our College will now be rendered so inconsiderately and disgrace- 
fully cheap, is placed on an equal footing with him. Several of 
our brethren have nobly come forward and expressed, in your va- 
luable Journal, their opinion on this and other important points; 
and all who have the respectability of the profession at heart 
should, at this crisis, promptly and unequivocally declare their 
deep and honest feeling on these and other points. 
All who are interested in this subject must have read with great 
pleasure the three letters in your last number, particularly that 
portion of Mr. Mayer’s which refers to a memorial being presented 
by the profession to the Governors on these most important points. 
If a meeting were to be called by the veterinary surgeons of the 
metropolis, soliciting the assistance and support of the profession 
at large, there is no doubt that the object might be carried into 
effect, especially if the memorial were headed by the Professors; 
and I think these gentlemen would cheerfully, eagerly, consent to 
support and to forward it. It wants but some decisive step, some 
energetic measure, like this, and the glory of our profession would 
commence at railway speed. 
After we had thus secured the proper education of the pupil, 
and which cannot be accomplished on the plan which seems at pre- 
sent intended to be adopted. — the diseases of cattle and sheep — 
how is it possible that, with the present distribution of lectures, they 
can be with the least degree of efficiency taught 1 — after, I say, we 
have secured the proper education of the pupil, we might be enabled 
to take that step on which the stability of the whole depends : we 
might, with the assistance of the agricultural societies, and particular- 
ly of the English Agricultural Society, obtain a legislative enactment, 
permitting no one to practise except licensed by a board of efficient 
examiners selected from the established schools. 
If I have expressed myself somewhat warmly, I know to whom 
I am writing, and that every reader of The Veterinarian is 
equally interested in the cause which I am advocating. 
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