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ANNUAL MEETING OF SUBSCRIBERS, &c. 
tell them, what their own hearts will echo, that they ought not 
to be the only examiners. They are not qualified justly to rfe- 
cide even as comparative anatomists, and most certainly they 
cannot be adequately acquainted with the pathology of the 
horse and other domesticated quadrupeds. 
Courtesy and honourable grateful feeling have placed them 
where they are, and there we trust they will remain; but the 
human surgeon is not, and can never be the thoroughly quali¬ 
fied examiner of the veterinary pupil. 
With the* aid of a few veterinary surgeons, (are we in truth 
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so degraded, that they will not associate with us ? then fye on 
the system which has been too long pursued !) and those sur¬ 
geons independent, unconnected with the college, uninfluenced 
by' favouritism or dislike, a committee might be composed, 
combining as at present the first medical talent of the kingdom, 
with humbler, but here, more useful, practical knowledge. The 
friends of the profession would rejoice, and its enemies would 
be deprived of their power to misrepresent and traduce. 
We anxiously await, or rather, we confidently anticipate the 
decision of the committee of examiners. 
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We have not space for more in the present number, except 
to say, that although one of the subscribers might in the ful¬ 
ness of his zeal force himself a little too often and pertinacious¬ 
ly on the patience of the meeting, he did not quite deserve to 
be rudely told by the chairman, he was a person, of no kind 
of consequence,’’—consequence—what is that? All this is 
wrong and cannot come to good. 
It appears that, since the last report, 56 pupils have been 
admitted—that the college has a disposeable fund of £5,000 ; 
that 869 horses, and 16 dogs, and 1 ass were admitted into 
the infirmary ; of which the ass, 585 horses, and 11 dogs were 
cured, 19‘ horses and 1 dog died, and 23 horses were reported 
incurable and destroyed. 
