AS SUBSCRIBERS. 
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ballot at a committee of governors; but that the veterinary 
surgeon or pupil may send his own horses when he pleases on the 
same terms as other subscribers, and without a subscription ; 
and, under cases of danger or difficulty, may send horses not his 
own property, if the case should appear to the Professor one cal¬ 
culated to be admitted.’’ 
Here is an appearance of liberality likely to make considerable 
impression on those who are unacquainted with the bearings of 
the subject. There is no small portion of diplomatic skill evinced 
ui this document; and we doubt not that the governors were re¬ 
conciled by it to the commission of an act of manifest injustice, 
cr, rather, they were not aware of the injustice of their proceed¬ 
ings, or the insult which they offered to the profession. 
A veterinary surgeon may send to the College horses which are 
bond jide his own property. May he, indeed ? W ill he be likely 
to do so ? Will he suffer a valuable animal to pass from under 
his own anxious and diligent care to the negligent and inefficient 
management of a public institution ? Will he be ready to ac¬ 
knowledge, especially conducted as that institution at present is, 
that a more skilful and successful mode of treating disease gene¬ 
rally, or of any particular disease, does exist at the College ? 
There is only one case in which the veterinary surgeon will be 
disposed to avail himself of this supposed privilege, and that is, 
when a spirited individual like Mr. William Goodwin wishes to 
institute a series of experiments on certain untractable diseases, 
or on the efficacy of certain drugs, and purchases a poor ani¬ 
mal for this purpose, and has not perfect convenience for the 
conducting of these experiments at his own establishment, or 
prefers that they should be conducted at that place where vete¬ 
rinary pupils might derive benefit from them, or the result ol 
them might be more extensively known. This gentleman might 
be disposed to send a horse to the College ; and the conductors of 
the College ought duly to appreciate his public spirit, and to re¬ 
ceive such subject for useful experiment, not only without sub¬ 
scription, but without the smallest charge. To call on that gen¬ 
tleman for the payment of two guineas, or even of the weekly 
livery, would be an act of meanness unworthy of a national insti¬ 
tution, and practised in no other veterinary school in Europe. 
