VETERINARY PROFESSION. oOi 
speak for themselves. They are thus addressing each correspond- 
ent in a letter which now lies before us. 
“ —Conceiving that, as faithful stewards, we are in duty hound 
to render to those of our brethren who have honoured the memorial 
with their support and signature, an account of what has been 
done, and is intended to be done relative to it, we have great plea¬ 
sure in performing this task. 
“Two hundred and eighty-eight signatures are attached to the 
memorial, thereby expressing the approbation of each individual, 
and those, taking into account above seventy returned circulars, 
the parties being either dead or their residence unknown, affording 
CL TiiajoTity of the whole pvofession, and containing as much of the 
talent, respectability, and wealth of the veterinary body as any 
parallel number that can be selected. i. i • 
“ As our professional brethren have a right to know that their 
confidence in us has not been misplaced, we shall ultimately record 
the whole of the signatures in The VETERINARIAN ; and as there 
may be some practitioners who may not have recei'ved. a cop 3 < of 
the memorial, let them be assured that no slight was intended to 
be offered to them, but the simple explanation of the matter is, that 
their residence was not known. They will find a copy oi it in the 
No. of The Veterinarian for March, and we should be proud 
if they would permit us to attach their names to it, and accept this 
explanation of the cause of our apparent neglect. 
“ Our object has been, from the commencement, to give that per¬ 
manent standing and character to our Alma Mater which she ought 
to possess—to strengthen the hands of our Professors to establish 
an efficient course of education, the best of the kind to ameliorate 
the condition of the whole body, and to strengthen the natural a,nd 
growing connexion which is taking place between the .liiiglish 
Agricultural Society, and the agriculturist eveiywhere, and the 
practitioners of the veterinary art. 
“The letters which we have received not only breathe an ardent 
desire to behold the Veterinary College assume its proper position 
among other similar establishments throughout Kurope, but to have 
established a more perfect course of education than at piesent pre¬ 
vails. We will not conceal that we have ulterior views. When we 
have made the education of the veterinary surgeon that which it 
ought to be, and which it is in every institution of the kind but 
ours, we shall have a right to think of, and to supplicate from the 
powers that be, ‘‘a Charter of Incorporation, to protect us from 
illiterate and uneducated men, and to alford us the same privileges 
and exemptions which other professional bodies possess. 
“ We have been much gratified in finding a respectful and proper 
tone of feeling pervading our brethren tow'ards the Professors and 
the Governors. This has cheered us on in the course which we 
are steadily pursuing, in order to secure our common object. 
