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EDINBURGH VETERINARY SCHOOL, 
What will our examiners say to this combination of me¬ 
dical and veterinary men ? They refused to meet us degraded 
veterinarians. When they acceded to the appointment of a ve¬ 
terinary committee, they demanded that it should be a separate 
one. We were not worthy to mingle with them.—Pshaw !—The re¬ 
collection of this may be painful to us, but the disgrace rests on those, 
who, by assumed punctilio and pride, would prevent that expo¬ 
sure of their ignorance as veterinary examiners which our admis¬ 
sion among them would soon effect. Thanks to the professors of 
the northern university, who, in the persons of Messrs. Castley 
and Henderson, have fully vindicated our claims. 
Now, Sir Astley, answer us,—Is your committee, composed of 
medical men,—competent at their own board, but utterly igno¬ 
rant at ours, and, assisted by Messrs. Coleman and Sewell, 
having too much at stake in these examinations ; examined in 
the person of every student; previously knowing too much of the 
candidates ; necessarily prejudiced in favour of or against them ; 
is this the best board that can by possibility be constituted ? (wc 
will not forget this until it is recanted, and that in the proper 
way)—or is it not incompetent, ineffective, partial, objectionable, 
compared with that of the Edinburgh school ? Ask your medi¬ 
cal friends; we do not mean your brother examiners, but they 
who are standing by, and can best judge of the business, and 
perhaps you would be startled to hear (we speak with perfect 
consideration) what men as eminent even as yourself, and that is 
affirming a great deal, do not scruple to say of your occupying 
a station for which you are unfit, and that to the exclusion of 
others who have natural claim to it, and an association with 
whom, whatever may have been the prejudice long diligently 
instilled into your mind, would not disgrace or annoy, but 
enable you to do justice to the pupil and the country. How 
easily might you redeem all, by establishing in our College 
(and a word from you would do it) an examination, at stated 
and not too frequent periods ; public ; impartial; and conducted 
by competent persons. Ask your own excellent heart,—Do 
we demand any thing wrong when we demand this? or can you 
blame us when we have sworn that we will not rest until we have 
obtained it ? 
