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Mr, You att. —Sir, I, at least, expressed Mr. Sibbald’s mean¬ 
ing; and it lie will kindly tell me the very term which he used 
I will adopt it. 
Well, sir, there is another person who is even more competen 
to decide this question than the medical examiners; of whom j 
may say, that he is the only perfectly competent judge, becausi 
he is a veterinary surgeon who has for many a year conductec 
the examination of veterinary pupils—I mean Professor Coleman 
and he has unequivocally and repeatedly declared, that the ap¬ 
pointment of this veterinary committee was highly expedient 
[Murmurs of dissent ]. Will any gentleman tell me that Mr 
Coleman did not, in this room, at the first meeting of veterinary 
surgeons, acknowdedge his conviction of the expediency of sucl 
a committee. Will any one tell me that Mr. Coleman did not, \ 
twelvemonth ago, at a meeting of governors, recommend the ap¬ 
pointment of this committee; and that he did not at the Iasi 
meeting most warmly urge its appointment ? 
A Gentleman. —Mr. Coleman found that he had got himsel 
into a scrape, and he was very glad to get out of it. 
Mr. \ ouatt.—S ir, I know nothing about scrapes, and I havt 
no wish or right to impute motives; but I state it as a fact, and 1 
defy contradiction, that Mr. Coleman, the best judge of the pro¬ 
priety of the appointment, the only perfectly competent judge 
has, again and again, publicly maintained the expediency of thal 
committee, the very name of which seems to be a matter of ridi¬ 
cule and scorn to-night. Then I say, that it behoves you to con¬ 
sider, before you place on record your dissent; and you should be 
ready to accompany that dissent with calm and convincing argu-j 
ment. 
I will go farther. Mr. Sewell, likewise a veterinary surgeon, 
and a veterinary examiner, declared publicly his approbation ol 
this measure [ Mr. Hallen here , hut in a mild and friendly 
manner , expressed his dissent]. Does Mr. Hallen doubt this ^ 
1 had it from authority on which I think I can place implicit con-: 
fidence, that Mr. Sewell, at the last meeting of governors, did 
recommend the establishment of this committee; and I thank him 
for it. Here then, sir, is a host of authority. What have these 
gentlemen to put against it ? I must say again, it behoves them to 
pause ere they place upon record their dissent and disapprobation. 
1 hen as to the kind of examination to which the pupil now sub¬ 
mits, is it that which can by possibility determine his competency 
to practise the veterinary art in all its branches ? 
M r. Sibrald.—T here is no such expression in the diploma,—, 
at least not in mine. 
