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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY l, 1829 . 
44 Licet omnibus licet etiam mihi, dignitatem artis veterinariee tueri ."—Cicero. 
ON the 22d ultimo, the proposed dinner of veterinary practi¬ 
tioners took place. Nearly forty gentlemen, and several of them 
from distant parts of the country, assembled. Professor Coleman 
presided, with the avowed intention of bringing forward some 
conciliatory measures, and yielding, in some degree, to the uni¬ 
versal and strongly-expressed feeling of the profession in favour 
of reform. The whole of the subject, however, being of such pa¬ 
ramount importance to every practitioner, it was determined, after 
Mr. Coleman’s address to us, to postpone all discussion of it to 
an evening set apart for the purpose, when the pleasures of the 
bottle might not seduce us from graver considerations; and a 
meeting of veterinarians was summoned for the following Monday 
evening. We have made arrangements to present our readers 
with an almost verbatim account of the whole of the proceedings, 
both at the dinner and at the adjourned meeting. It will appear on 
the 15th inst., in the form of a Supplement to “ The Veterina¬ 
rian and, as recording the avowed feeling and determination 
of the first meeting of veterinary surgeons, representing and ex¬ 
pressing the sentiments of the general body, it will constitute a 
document most important to every one of us. 
The outline of Mr. Coleman’s address to us will not, perhaps, 
be at present unacceptable. 
“ There were two distinct questions,” he said, “ not connected 
with each other,—the admission of veterinaiy surgeons into the 
examining committee, and their admission as subscribers to the 
Veterinary College. 
“ As to the first, he thought that the demand of veterinary prac¬ 
titioners was natural and fair. It was laid before the committee, 
and these three objections were made by the committee :—First, 
that by the laws of the college, every examiner must be a teacher. 
Secondly, that the members of the present committee were fami¬ 
liarly acquainted with each other, and had great pleasure in meet¬ 
ing each other • but there was doubt whether there would be the 
