THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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ments can be founded, your memorialists pray that measures may 
be taken to secure that regular attendance of the Demonstrator, 
or Assistant-demonstrator, in the dissecting room of the College, 
which has only too lately been rendered; and that, from the 
funds of the College, subjects for public demonstration, at specific 
times, shall be supplied. 
That a knowledge of chemistry, so far, at least, as the veterinary 
materia medica is concerned, and more particularly a knowledge 
of veterinary pharmacy, is indispensably necessaiy in the educa¬ 
tion of the student; and your memorialists pray that these may 
be no longer neglected. 
That it was the design of the Veterinary College to form a 
school, in which the anatomy and diseases of “ quadrupeds of 
all kinds might be taught;” that this is'the case in every conti¬ 
nental veterinary school; that “ cattle” and sheep “ are objects of 
great commercial, as well as domestic importance;” that every 
country practitioner is, and must be, frequently consulted re¬ 
specting them; and that ignorance of their diseases, and the 
treatment of them, has proved exceedingly detrimental to the 
respectability and emolument of many veterinarians: yjur me¬ 
morialists, therefore, pray, that the original intention of the 
founders of the College may be fulfilled, and that the student 
may henceforth be taught the structure and maladies of every 
animal that may afterwards be committed to his care. 
That your memorialists have heard with surprise and regret, 
that it is the intention of the governors to exclude veterinary sur¬ 
geons from the privilege of becoming subscribers to the Veteri¬ 
nary College; and do respectfully, yetindignantly, protest against 
this act of manifest injustice. That they respectfully but sternly 
ask, of what crime they, or any of them, have been guilty, that, 
after a lapse of thirty-seven years, they should now be deprived 
of the pleasure and right of contributing to the funds, and pro¬ 
moting the interests, oi'that school at which they were educated, 
and which must be ever dear to them; and they demand to be 
confronted with their accusers, and to be heard in their own de¬ 
fence, before they and their profession be thus degraded and con¬ 
demned. 
Finally, your memorialists pray, that when the present imper¬ 
fections of the Veterinary College are removed, and it be more 
identified with the agriculture of the country, the governors then, 
and then only, cordially supported by the united body of the pro¬ 
fession, would seek from Parliament a recognition ar.d incorpora¬ 
tion of it as a national institution; and that then, as much as 
may be possible, uneducated and ungraduated practitioners may 
