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r'inarv surgeons, or of all of them ? I see some of all ol them 
here. The last meeting was one of veterinary surgeons. I have 
now been called to order by a pupil. (A slight pause.) 
Well, sir, I was saying that this question of the admission of 
veterinary surgeons as subscribers, the former meeting did not 
much enter into : they did not seem to me to feel interested in it, 
or, at least, they felt that this was not the proper time for enter¬ 
ing into it. This is my view of it; and if 1 were hostile to your 
object, I know nothing more likely to defeat that object than 
bringing this forward. 
Mr. Cherry. —I rise with pain to interrupt; but I think that 
this is not applicable to the subject. 
Chairman.—M r. Coleman appears to me to be perfectly in 
order. 
Mr. Coleman. —It is my duty to state the facts as they oc¬ 
curred. This subject took up the time of the general meeting, a 
full hour before the other memorial was received. 1 here was an 
informality in it, or more properly an objection, which had not 
occurred to me, until it was pointed out by one ol the governors. 
The memorial demands, that a committee of veterinary surgeons 
should be appointed for the examination of veterinary pupils, in 
I addition to the present committee ; and that no pupil should ob¬ 
tain his diploma until he had passed both committees. There 
was a practical objection to this. A pupil may be examined by 
the veterinary committee, and highly approved of ; but he will 
receive no certificate for that. He then comes before the medi¬ 
cal committee, and for some deficiency in physiology or che¬ 
mistry is rejected. This appears to me very improper and ab¬ 
surd. It should not be possible that a student should be passed 
by one committee and rejected by the other. If the memorial 
had stated that the pupil should have the option of being exa¬ 
mined by the one or the other, and that the approval of that com¬ 
mittee should entitle him to a diploma, the memorial would not 
have been rejected. The pupils should have the power of selec¬ 
tion. Some one might say, “ I do not wish to be examined by the 
medical committee; I want to establish my character as a vete¬ 
rinarian.'” Another, who has seen a good deal of practice, may 
think that he knows as much as the whole of the veterinary com¬ 
mittee, and does not wish to be examined by them. He will go 
before the medical committee to establish his reputation as a che¬ 
mist or physiologist. The memorial enforces a penalty on the 
pupil by compelling him to be examined by both committees. 
I have heard it said, that it required that the pupil shall be ex¬ 
amined first by the medical committee, or he will not go to it 
at all. 1 consider this as a libel oa that committee. If it be not 
