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names appear as medical men, what could be more natural for 
an intelligent person to ask—Does this man possess a knowledge 
of the veterinary art? No. What does he possess, then? A 
knowledge of his own profession—a profession distinct from that 
of the study of the horse. Well, upon what ground of con¬ 
sistency, of truth, of common honesty, could this man give you 
a diploma ? I grant you, sir, that as the profession is now con¬ 
stituted, our names, humble as they are, can be but of very little 
use; but still I think it will hardly be denied by persons who 
know the profession, that thirty-seven years having elapsed since 
the formation of the College, and intelligent and respectable 
as are many practitioners of our art; I think, I say, it will 
hardly be denied, that half a dozen individuals may be culled 
out of the profession to form an efficient examining committee. 
If such a committee can be formed, then I think it extremely 
unjust, extremely disgraceful to us all, that such a committee is 
not in existence. 
Then in regard to the law which excludes any person from 
being a veterinary examiner who has not delivered lectures on 
subjects connected with the veterinary art; in regard to that 
law, sir, it is certainly scarcely worth any degree of respect; for 
it is a law most easily evaded. When I say a law most easy 
to be evaded, I mean/ that it requires no trouble to come within 
the pale of it. If any one of us would sit down and write a 
course of lectures, and deliver them, and have a few persons to 
come and hear them, that would be perfectly sufficient. No¬ 
thing, then, could be more easy than to come within the pale of 
this law. If the gentlemen had intended to have thrown the 
privilege perfectly open, it could scarcely have been done more 
effectually than by this enactment. I, therefore, do not think 
that it is worth while to waste our time in making any objection 
° Mr. Cherry. —May I ask, sir, by what authority that law 
has been enacted, where it was promulgated, or any thing con-, 
cerning it ? I have in vain searched the records ol the College 
to fincf it. It has been a dictum of the medical committee ; bul 
I can find out nothing further respecting it. 
Professor Coleman.— Whether it rests with the governors oi 
the medical committee I do not know. The recommendation o: 
the medical committee to the governors for the formation of £ 
law of the nature would be necessary. It is not impossible but 
that the law may have originated with or been made by th< 
medical committee, as the guide of their recommendation. The) 
recommend whom they please; and it is possible they may hav< 
this as the rule of their recommendation. I know there is a lav 
