19S 
TIIK MEMOlilAL OF THE 
better remunerate those who deserve it, and would keep away from 
the College many whose appearance and situation in life are no 
credit to it. A startling fact is stated by the memorialists, and 
the continuance of which must necessarily degrade our profession: 
‘'In no one of the public schools of medicine, to which a hospital 
is attached, is the scale of fees one-fourth part so low as at the 
Veterinary College.” 
The Memorial next adverts to the crying evil, that the pupil who 
has been educated by his parent to the knowledge and practice of 
the veterinary art, or who has served an apprenticeship to a vete¬ 
rinary practitioner, is placed precisely on the same level, and must 
stay at the College the same time, as the youth who comes to the 
institution perfectly ignorant of everything belonging to our science. 
The memorialists propose that the uneducated youth shall be com¬ 
pelled to attend three years at the College, while the other shall be 
permitted to go up for his examination at the expiration of two 
years. They apply, and very properly, the same rule to the 
pupils of other schools. One subject has been omitted altogether, 
—the Examining Committee. We believe that we can state the 
reason of this, and one honourable to our friends. They recollect 
the time when the College was principally dependent on the patron¬ 
age of these gentlemen for its very existence. In the infant state of 
the school, the attachment of the names of such men to the veterinary 
diploma conferred a degree of respectability on the individual and 
on the profession, which could have been obtained by no other means. 
They think that there would be an appearance of ingratitude, which 
they can never feel, in dismissing such men from the Examiners’ 
Board. On the other hand, having heard from some of these gen¬ 
tlemen the most flattering opinion of the progress of the veterinary 
profession; and being aware of the fact, that one of the examiners, 
since the death of Mr. Coleman, has already withdrawn himself 
from the board, avowedly from a deep feeling that veterinary 
surgeons are now fully capable of examining the candidates for a 
veterinary diploma—they are assured that, at the instigation of 
the Medical Examiners, some change will shortly be effected in the 
Examiners’ Committee, by which the honour of the profession will 
be maintained, and no disrespect offered to those to whom, after all, 
we are much indebted. 
