246 NO VETERINARY EXAMINING COMMITTEE. 
We are not, however, quite excluded. Our admission depends 
on the ballot of the .governors. They will admit whom they 
please, and reject whom they please. A very pretty power they 
have thus assumed to themselves. Let us see who will be the 
first veterinarian to disgrace himself, and compromise the rights 
of his brethren, by submitting to this ballot. 
This ballot extends not to medical men, or lawyers, or even to 
blackguards. No; the governors would not dare to usurp such a 
power over others, but the poor degraded veterinarian is to be 
thus insulted. 
The meaning of this ballot is, that there are some veterinary 
surgeons whom the governors, and probably the professors, would 
not like to see among them. Probably they would not. But 
who are these men, and what have they done, that the whole 
profession is to suffer on their account ? The truth, perhaps, is, 
that they would not like to see among them any veterinarian 
who had talent and spirit enough to detect and expose their mis¬ 
management. We say to them as we said to Mr. Coleman, 
u Do that which is right, and the veterinary surgeon will be your 
staunchest friend.” 
This act of proscription being confirmed, other business was 
disposed of, and particularly the revival of Mr. Sewell’s claim, or 
of Mr. Behrens’ claim for him, to a pecuniary reward for the dis¬ 
covery of a cure for glanders. This was properly and success¬ 
fully resisted by Mr. Coleman. 
We will not here enter into any question respecting the exist¬ 
ence or the value of the discovery; but we do say, that the 
governors would neither act justly by the College, or by Mr. 
Sewell, if they awarded any premium until the matter has been 
subjected to the impartial examination of a competent tribunal,—• 
a committee of veterinary surgeons: it would be a direct rob¬ 
bery of the one, and it would not add to the reputation of the 
other. 
Next came the important question as to the appointment of a 
committee of veterinary surgeons to examine veterinary pupils. 
At the first establishment of the school at St. Pancras, there 
were no veterinary surgeons, and an examining committee was ^ 
appointed, the best which could be then selected, consisting of se- 
