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EXCLUSION OF VETERINARY SURGEONS AS 
he be a subscriber; but we have a law which prevents veterinary 
surgeons becoming subscribers without the consent of the go¬ 
vernors. If you please, your name shall be laid before the 
Committee, at the next meeting. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient and obliged servant, 
W. J. Morton. 
W. Goodwin, Esq . 
Mr. W. Goodwin to Professor Coleman. 
/ 
The King’s Mews. Pimlico, December 1st, 1828. 
Sir, 
When I requested Mr. Morton, on Saturday, to acquaint you 
that I was desirous of sending a patient to the Veterinary College, 
I had not the slightest idea that such a regulation existed as the 
one alluded to in Mr. M's. letter. I should have sent the horse 
straightforward to the College, had his case been any other than 
a suspicious one of glanders ; but some time ago, when I bought 
two horses similarly affected, and became a subscriber solely for 
the purpose of trying Mr. Sewell's treatment upon them, I recollect 
that you gave me to understand, that it was quite optional for 
you to receive or reject such cases. 
It was with this view of your discretionary power that I first 
made application to be allowed to send the horse in question to 
the College; and I confess that I was not a little surprised at re¬ 
ceiving for a reply, that I was no longer eligible to be a subscriber, 
and consequently could not send the horse in my own name. 
As I am still ignorant, I beg that you will inform me at what 
period my ineligibility commenced, and of the cause that could 
have led to it. 
Hitherto I have been but a spectator of the contentions be¬ 
tween the College and the Profession ; but I can no longer remain 
silent, and suffer such an indignity as has been thus offered to us 
to pass unnoticed; and I am convinced that every member of the 
profession must bear the same resentment that I feel towards such 
unjust and illiberal treatment. 
It is my intention to acquaint the profession of their situation; 
and I have written this to you, in order that I may be the better 
able to perform the unpleasant task. 
I am, Sir, 
• Your obedient, humble servant, 
W. J. Goodwin. 
To E. Coleman, Esq. 
