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VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
han an honourable distinction, this meeting takes this oppor- 
unity of disavowing all connexion or participation in sue 1 sen 1 
dents, and cannot sufficiently admire the effrontery of those who 
ise that name for the purpose of getting a livelihood, at the same 
ime that thev were professing to be ashamed of it. 
“ That feelin°' grateful, as every honourable veterinanan must 
lo, to those who have given him that information and acqune- 
nent which give him a name and rank in society, we take this 
ipportunity of thus making our warmest and best acknowledg- 
nents to our liberal patrons and teachers, begging they will not 
nisconstrue, as the voice of the profession, the sentiments o a 
ew disappointed individuals.” , 
The following resolution was then read 1 “ Students having 
iccasionally passed their examination without seeing sufficient of 
he College practice, the late resolution recommended by the me- 
lical committee of examiners, and adopted by the governors, to 
'ompel veterinary students to remain at the College twelve 
nonths before they be permitted to be examined, will be bene- 
icial to the public, the veterinary profession, and the student: and 
his meeting begs leave respectfully to recommend to the governors, 
hat those °pupils who have not been previously educated to the 
nedical profession, or who have not served an apprenticeship to a 
veterinary surgeon or farrier, shall regularly attend the College 
practice at least two years, before they be admitted to an exann- 
lation before the medical committee. . ,«■ 
Mr. Sibbald.— I have some doubt with regard to this. Mr. 
Youatt’s statement, that as veterinary surgeons we are not ad¬ 
mitted into many situations of respectability, was got up on purpose. 
It is not correct. I have no objection to improvement. We 
will have Mr. Youatt’s march of intellect; but we may march too 
fast. I am not aware of the individuals to whom some allusions 
have been made; but I will roundly contradict the assertion, that 
any one has passed the College in an improper way. 
Mr Morgan. —Can it be denied that students have some¬ 
times passed the College without staying a sufficient time to 
qualify themselves for practice ? 
Mr. Sibbald.— But are we not stultifying ourselves by saying 
in one resolution that we are quite content, and, m another, that 
there have been some lapses ? 
Mr. Hallen. —Although some remarks not very flattering 
to the profession have been made to-night, I have the pleasure 
of being acquainted with many country practitioners; and 1 have 
found them competent and honourable. On the subject of 
this motion I have had an opportunity of ascertaining the sen¬ 
timents of several of them, and they are unanimous. I t is a fact, 
that many pupils have left in six c\r nine months. r lhey have 
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