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Oil entering within the College walls to complete that which they 
already know in part, they find themselves placed on a perfect 
equality with those who have never served their apprenticeship, 
and are totally ignorant of veterinary practice. 
“Your Memorialists have no doubt that you will see the equity of 
making some alteration in this most important matter, relying, as 
they do, in perfect confidence on your endeavours to devise a plan 
which, while it renders justice to the profession, will place a further 
barrier against the admission of uneducated men. If your Memo¬ 
rialists may be allowed to give an opinion on this important point, 
they would suggest that all students should be required to present 
indentures at their examination of their having spent three years 
with some regular practitioner; and also of having attended two 
full sessional courses of lectures at the Veterinary College ; or, in 
default of the previous advantage of apprenticeship, they shall be 
compelled to attend three years at the Veterinary College. 
“ Before your Memorialists conclude what they are afraid has 
well nigh wearied your attention, they feel it due to their Scottish 
brethren to state, that they think you have rather unintentionally 
done them an injustice, in requiring them, after they have gra¬ 
duated at their own school, to remain the same period of time at 
the London school as if they had never studied at all. They 
would, therefore, suggest the propriety of your allowing them the 
privilege to present themselves for examination after a shorter 
period of residence, on paying the usual entrance fees and present¬ 
ing their Scotch diploma. 
“ In conclusion, your Memorialists pray that you will pardon 
their freedom in thus making known to you what their duty to 
their profession and themselves imperiously demands, and to assure 
you that they will, at all times, be ready to advocate every mea¬ 
sure of yours, which has for its object the welfare and onward 
progress of our noble science : and they further pray that you and 
they may see her continue to advance until she may be able to 
claim an equality with human medicine and surgery, her members 
everywhere performing their moral and social duties with honour 
to themselves, and credit to the institution at which they were 
educated.” 
