ON THE VETERINARY EXAMINING COMMITTEE. 281 
present Board of Examiners, “ that there can be no objection to 
our forming a Board of Examiners,”—but that, their Board having 
been constituted by the governors, “ they (the governors) only can 
change it.” 
It may not be in the power of the present Committee of Exa¬ 
miners to alter the constitution of their own board; but, supposing 
they deemed it advisable to admit one or two veterinary members, 
and were to send such a recommendation to the governors of the 
Veterinary College, do the committee imagine it would be rejected? 
Oh, no! certainly not. But suppose the members of the profes¬ 
sion were to draw up a memorial of the kind, and lay it before the 
governors, do the committee think we should succeed ? Oh, no! 
certainly not. How could we, when our Professor himself is 
averse to the question ? What, then, is to be done ? To endeavour 
to persuade the Professor that the concession of the point, on his 
part, would tend to the benefit of the profession. This, I fear, 
would turn out a forlorn hope. No! The governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College must be roused from the dormant state in which 
they have far, far too long lain; not by lukewarm, milk-and- 
water memorials, but by strong and influential representations. 
Surely, in such a great horse-country as this, we shall not be at a 
loss to find out persons—ay, personages of affluence and power,— 
who will be both willing and ready to take up any great question 
vitally connected with the best interests of the veterinary pro¬ 
fession. Is there not among the governors a man who will see to 
this ? If there is not, better would the College be without them; 
and better far would fare the profession, would they throw off all 
acknowledgment of obligation and allegiance to such men. How¬ 
ever, let us hope better things. Let us think the time is not far 
distant when some conscientious governor will rise up in his place, 
and to his confreres say—“ Gentlemen! we must reform our 
house.” Then will the present Committee of Examiners receive 
all the grateful and generous returns the profession can make them 
for their long and faithful and valuable services; then will such a 
Board be formed as will render the man who may pass it truly 
“ (pialified to practise the veterinary art.” P. 
