THE VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
surgeons might be injurious to the profession. We must reason 
upon general principles. Suppose veterinary surgeons should 
come up and say we have practitioners enough ; we will have no 
more. It will, however, gentlemen, be for you to determine, whe¬ 
ther you will enter into the consideration of this question, and 
how you will dispose of it. 
Mr. W. Goodwin rose for the purpose of moving that the 
present meeting should be adjourned. Although he was most 
interested in the question, he feared that no good could arise 
from the discussion of it at so late an hour. Every veterinary 
surgeon must be interested in the question ; but his was a peculiar 
interest. He was the first veterinary surgeon who had been re¬ 
jected as a subscriber to the Veterinaiy College. His subscrip¬ 
tion had been received in 1825,—in 1829 it was rejected. He 
had never attended any general meeting; he had never rendered 
himself obnoxious to the governors or the officers of the College; 
and, therefore, the argument of the Professor could not apply to 
him. As a British subject, as one who was not an outlaw in his 
native land, he conceived that he had as much right as any other 
man in the country to enjoy the advantages which might be 
derived from a national institution like the Veterinary College. 
He could not imagine for one moment that men, in possession 
of their senses, as the governors of the Veterinary College might 
be presumed to be, would attempt to put in force a measure so 
ridiculous and absurd, not to say manifestly illegal. 
He had had a conference with Mr. Coleman on the subject; 
and that gentleman had acknowledged that if he (Mr. Goodwin) 
chose to send his groom, or his most menial servant, to the Col¬ 
lege as a subscriber, they had not the power to reject him. He 
might send his servant with his two guineas, to vote as he chose to 
make him—to act as his perfect automaton—or to annoy them in 
a manner which he could never so far disgrace himself as to 
practise, and they would be perfectly at his mercy; but he who was 
educated at the College, and identified with its interests, and who 
had too much at stake to act the blackguard, was excluded. He 
need not say more to show the utter absurdity of such a law. His 
mind was fully made up. He would appear, or attempt to ap¬ 
pear, at the general meeting of the subscribers, and demand to 
know why he was excluded from the rights of every British sub¬ 
ject. 
Mr. Field observed, that as Mr. Goodwin was determined to 
appear at the meeting, and plead his own cause and that of the 
profession, no good could result from their mooting the question 
now. 
Mr. Cherry said, that he, too, was one of those against whom 
