308 MEETING OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
posal respecting the appointment of a new committee, these re- 
marks were quite uncalled for. 
We next come to the third document; and from this it appears 
that Mr. Coleman took the memorial to a meeting of subscribers. 
Now what had they to do with it? It was addressed to the go¬ 
vernors ; then why hand it over to a general meeting of sub¬ 
scribers? But then this meeting refer to their apprehensions of 
practical inconveniences, and a former resolution of theirs. What 
these are they do not condescend to state; and while these remain 
secret, the production signed “ George Holmne Sumner” is 
merely a stringing together of words, and is devoid of any defi¬ 
nitive meaning. It, however, leaves the obvious inference, that 
they mean to have nothing to do with veterinary surgeons. 
We come now to the consideration of Mr. Coleman’s letter; 
and it certainly is any thing but satisfactory, coming from one so 
blended with the profession as he is, and from one making such 
warm professions of gratitude and attachment to it as he does. 
That Mr. Coleman feels grateful to the veterinary profession for 
the liberal sums of money it has paid, and for the unbounded 
support it has afforded him, will be readily believed; and that 
he also feels grateful to the medical examining committee, as 
public lecturers, for the assistance they have rendered in contri¬ 
buting to the instruction of the pupils paying him so large a fee 
as twenty guineas, is not to be doubted. I do deny that veteri¬ 
nary pupils have ever received gratuitous instruction. The pupil 
is not indebted to these medical teachers. The fee of twenty 
guineas is an enormously large one. It ought to cover all the 
instruction (if instruction it be) which the pupil derives from the 
College; and that from the medical teachers too. Instruction! 
why I heard that a demonstration was lately given by Mr. Sewell—* 
a most extraordinary circumstance !—and that it actually lasted 
nearly ten minutes. It might be short and sweet; but if it was in¬ 
telligible it was the first time. I repeat, sir, that the fee of twenty 
guineas is sufficient to cover the instruction of the pupil; and it 
is the Professor and not the pupil who is under obligation to the 
medical teachers. But why the liberality of the medical exami-' 
ner, who has for thirty years been receiving fees for his examina¬ 
tions, is to be extolled for now conditionally offering to relinquish 
them, while the declaration of the veterinary surgeons, that no 
fees whatever were to be charged to the student on their account, 
is passed over, does not appear. Mr. Coleman, however, assumes, 
that the veterinary examination was to throw an additional ex¬ 
pense on the student: that, to prevent this, the medical exami¬ 
ners will now give their services gratuitously; nay, that they 
