THE VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
:ing three veterinary surgeons with the medical committee 
unquestionably more likely to fail in giving satisfaction than 
at of forming a separate veterinary committee, with the Pro- 
ssor, Assistant-professor, and three, four, five or six, or what- 
er might be the number of veterinary surgeons agreed upon, to 
institute a separate examining committee. In fact, that com- 
ittee has already had the sanction of the medical committee 
These are the views 6f that question which I have taken; and 
think, that although a little discussion might now take place 
L>on them, a separate day should be set apart for that purpose, 
t that meeting I shall attend, or I shall not attend, just as you 
ish me. [ Cheers .] My interest I consider to be interwoven 
ith your interests. 
It has been thought that I have felt, by excluding you, 1 was 
rrrying forward my views of my own interest. Whatever may 
ave been considered, so help me God, I never had any such 
3 eling. At my time of life I do not want monopoly; I want 
ocial comfort and good feeling; and I should be extremely 
appy to comply with those opinions which will produce the 
nost unity, and tend most to the advantage of veterinary science. 
Loud chc6rs.~\ 
Now, gentlemen, the other question is one in which I do not 
hink the profession at large will feel equally interested. It is 
,vhat I have nothing to do with personally. It is, whether veter¬ 
inary surgeons should, by paying two guineas, have a powei o 
icting, in short, as governors. I should ask, what advantage 
t can be to such a subscriber, save and except the power of being 
the commander-in-chief, or one of the commanders, ovei the 
officers of the College ? I can conceive a case much in point: 
a pupil may possibly have misconducted himself; may^possibly 
have deserved expulsion; and having a certain degree of revenge 
hanging about him, he chooses to pay two guineas to become a 
member, and attend the meetings of the subscribers, foi the 
very purpose of annoying the College. I can imagine another 
case, and this was an observation of one of the governors: we 
may suppose these veterinary surgeons might become too nume¬ 
rous—so much so that they cannot all thrive. How easdy may 
they club together to form a law that no more veterinary surgeons 
shall be admitted. It will be better to put a stop to this. 
A number of veterinary surgeons, by subscribing two guineas, 
may outvote the members of the College, and may, if they do 
not annihilate the College altogether, pass such laws as they may 
conceive, in opposition to the College, to be most convenient to 
themselves. 
