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cjf the profession generally. It included practitioners, as well as 
veterinary surgeons, properly speaking. He denied that the 
school at St. Pancras was the only school. It possessed no ex¬ 
clusive charter. Every man who practised (and eveiy man had 
a right to practise) had a right to be there, whether he had paid 
his twenty guineas or not. 
Mr. Sibbald. —I differ altogether from the last speaker. 1 
know that when he was at the College he paid the greatest at¬ 
tention to every thing that was necessary to enable him to obtain 
his diploma. He sought it with avidity. He was a very atten¬ 
tive pupil. He thought that the diploma would raise him in the 
estimation of the public; and it enabled him soon to occupy a 
very respectable situation in the army; and without that diploma 
he could not have occupied that situation. Mr. Gheny says that 
he does not consider a connexion with the school at St. Pancras 
as at all adding to the respectability ol the practitioner ; but he 
derived importance and consequence from it. All this is wiong. 
Until the establishment of the Veterinary College, there was no 
veterinary profession. In the life ol Mr. Elaine there is an illus¬ 
tration of this. Are not young men daily applying for one. I see 
a gentleman on my right hand, who has arrived at a veiy matuie 
period of life, and who has had large experience in his profession, 
and who is now endeavouring to obtain a diploma bom Mi. Cole ¬ 
man. I be° leave to ask Mr. ^ ouatt whether he is not doing so . 
Mr. Y ouatt.— -Really, sir, I do not know what authority 
this gentleman has to cpiestion me; or how my answer can beai 
on the point in question, who is entitled to vote here to-mght. 
Mr. Sibbald.— Oh! I will tell you my authority. It was 
Mr.- 
Well, then 
—; nav, it was yourself, not many evenings ago. 
, if a gentleman of Mr. Youatt’s mature age thinks it 
a matter of such importance-- • 
Mr. You att. —Since this is the use to be made ol the cn- 
cumstance, I deny that I am seeking to obtain a diploma from 
Mr. Sibbald. —I am glad of it. I should have been sorry 
to see the profession reduced so low, as that a gentleman o 
more than forty years of age, and of great practice and experience, 
should think it necessary to ask for a diploma from the College. 
Well, sir, I think there is something in a College diploma. My 
father was a common farrier. He w r as intimate with the greatest 
practitioner of his day, Layton. He was not a veterinary sui- 
geon, but farrier to the king. The term veterinary surgeon arose 
with the College. There is honour attached to it. I have sought 
it, I have obtained it, and l prize it. It is the guide by which 
I have acted. When 1 have heard a man’s name, I have turned 
