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convinced as they are, that such a resolution, on your part, would 
only equal the demands of the profession and the exigencies of the 
case. They, therefore, would respectfully suggest the election of 
such an able pathological teacher on cattle, sheep, &c. from among 
the profession, who can produce, on public competition, the best 
testimonials of his capability to discharge the duties of the office 
he aspires to. 
On the second point before alluded to, viz. the remuneration 
of your lecturers, you will excuse your Memorialists when they 
state to you, that they do not consider them sufficiently remunerated, 
nor do they think that the present low rate of fees is at all likely 
to promote the respectability of the students or the profession. 
“ Anxious as they are to place within the reach of every student 
the means of rendering himself thoroughly educated for his pro¬ 
fession—the public expect, and the profession require, that means 
should be adopted which shall prevent those from deluding the 
public, and bringing discredit on the profession, who never intend 
to offer themselves for examination; but who pay the present low 
fees, stay a few months at College, and then appear before the 
public as Members of the Royal Veterinary College; there being 
at present no preventive to their thus acting. 
“ By increasing the present fee to thirty guineas, or more, accord¬ 
ing to the number of lecturers, your Memorialists are of opinion 
that your professors would be better remunerated; and that it 
would form one check against the admission of illiterate students. 
They would farther remind you, that in no one of the public schools 
of medicine to which an hospital is attached, are the scale of fees 
one-fourth part so low as at the Veterinary College. 
'‘Your Memorialists also earnestly entreat, that you will take into 
your serious consideration the fact, that no distinction at present 
exists with regard to the period of residence at tlie Veterinary 
College between the educated and the non-educatcd student. 
There are many young men now at College who have had the 
opportunity of being under the guidance of their parents or masters 
to whom they were apprenticed—who have been educated for tlie 
profession from their very childhood—and have had ample oppor¬ 
tunities of seeing and treating the various forms of disease; but 
