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examining committee, why six veterinary surgeons would be still 
better. More benefit would be derived from six than from 
three, especially if they were men of equal talent, equal know- 
ledge, and equal respectability of character; and then the other 
objection would be done away with. 
I was not aw T are there was the least objection to this; and the 
thing struck me then, as it has struck me since, and as I still 
feel, that it would be highly beneficial to the institution and to 
the public ; and more especially, as it would retain the services 
not only of the medical committee, but would ensure the con¬ 
tinuation of their liberality, in their theatres being kept open to 
veterinary students. [Cheers.] The governors feel particularly 
grateful to these gentlemen; they feel that the institution has 
been mainly supported by them; and I am doubtful whether we 
should have been sitting here at this moment, if it had not been 
for their assistance. The governors are not only grateful to 
them foi the past, but in the anticipation of future services—for 
the present and for future services; and in any point of view, it 
would be extremely ungrateful to turn our backs on those gen¬ 
tlemen. 
The consequence of this resolution was, that I attended at the 
meeting of the governors, and, as was my duty, brought this 
resolution of the medical committee before them; but in con¬ 
sequence of some unpleasant discussion, which it is not neces¬ 
sary now to particularize, the governors did not approve of this 
second committee; and, but for which unpleasant discussion, as 
far as my ow n opinion goes (and I mention it only as my own 
opinion, and the conviction of my own mind), it would have 
passed. I may, however, be mistaken. A doubt had arisen, 
too, whether the medical committee were still of the same 
opinion; but, however, they then thought it impolitic, and, in 
short, did not grant admission to the veterinary surgeons as 
forming part of their committee. 
A committee of the governors waited on the medical com¬ 
mittee to ascertain their decision upon it: that decision, I 
believe, you are all acquainted with: the resolution passed in 
the negative. 
I observed, that one of the objections was, the difficulty of 
fixing upon three—the difficulty of selecting three, and not 
annoying the rest. It has, therefore, struck me, that, if six 
were elected from the practitioners of London and its environs, 
within ten miles, selected from among themselves and by them¬ 
selves, or, w hat is better, by the profession at large, at a meeting 
called for the purpose; and if a memorial was drawn up, either 
before the election of these gentlemen or afterwards, and pre- 
