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nors had been in possession of the Memorial, if the opinion or pub¬ 
lic sanction of the Medical Examining Committee had been deemed 
at all necessary —“ when the subjects of the Memorial will be laid 
before them for their advice : when that is received, a Committee 
of the Governors will be convened to determine thereon, and the 
result will be communicated to you. It is impossible for me, at 
this season of the year, to say when the meeting will take place.” 
No result” has yet been “ communicated.” 1 will not add another 
word on this point. The whole subject is too farcical and con¬ 
temptible. 
Whether the Examining Committee sat in conclave deep on 
this evening of the 22d of July, or what was the result of the con¬ 
sultation, we know not. That subject will soon come before us. 
We regret to say, that the evil is unabated. It is unabated, al¬ 
though there is always a sufficient number of the Governors, re¬ 
siding in or near the metropolis, to form a quorum. The winter is 
come, and the lectures have commenced on the new and inefficient 
plan, without the slightest communication with the original Depu¬ 
tation since the middle of July. 
The Deputation has, in our opinion, acted with great discretion 
and good feeling. Although they represented the decided majority 
of the profession, and that majority has been rapidly increasing, 
there has been no expression of defiance, no angry remonstrance, 7io 
allusion to certain questions of right, or certain weak or untenable 
points connected with the College ; but they are still anxiously await¬ 
ing the promised communication. They would fain rest on one 
assurance,—that, when the question lies with the Examining Com¬ 
mittee, they are in honourable hands. They have, indeed, in no 
slight degree strengthened their position by the appointment of a 
standing committee to watch over the interests of veterinary science, 
and carry out, with a spirit of good temper and good feeling, every 
thing that may tend to the farther advancement of their art. 
With one exception, they could not have devised a more honour¬ 
able and a surer method of accomplishing their object than their 
proposal with regard to the Examining Committee; and there is not 
one of that body who does not deeply feel the justice of the claim. 
It is, in the present advanced state of veterinary science, the deep 
feeling of the profession, that a limited number of veterinary sur- 
