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THE EDITOR TO HIS READERS. 
therefore long appeared to your memorialists, that a proper and ex¬ 
perienced veterinary surgeon should be appointed, with power to 
decide on horses suspected, either by the police or by purchasers, 
of being so disordered; and that the offenders should be taken into 
custody, and such horses detained, and, afterwards, disposed of as 
in your judgment may be determined. 
“ That such a measure would virtually put a stop to the present 
iniquitous trade of buying glandered horses in all parts of the 
country, and bringing them to Smithfield market, where they are 
fraudulently sold, bought back again for a trifling sum by a con¬ 
federate, and resold again, perhaps, for many successive weeks, 
communicating this dreadful disorder, meanwhile, to numbers of 
sound horses in different stables. 
“ That on these strong grounds your memorialists rest, confiding 
in your anxiety to reform an admitted nuisance of this magnitude.” 
THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1840. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
We had expected to have presented our readers, in the present 
number, with a detailed account of the success or failure of the 
Memorial; but the Governors, for reasons into which, perhaps, we 
have, at present, no right to inquire, have postponed their meeting 
from the beginning or middle of May to the first or second week in 
June. The claims of the profession have already been laid fully and 
fairly before the public; and it may be prudent and decorous not 
again to urge them, until we see the result of the conclave of the 
Governors. One thing, however, should be impressed on those 
whom it may concern. The number of signatures to the Memorial 
has considerably increased during the last month;—it is more than 
three hundred, and consequently includes a large majority of the 
professsion: but there are many who have warmly expressed their 
approbation of the measure, who, from dilatoriness or idleness, have 
not sent the proper dispatches to Newcastle-under-Lyne. They 
will be sorry for it, when the battle is fought and won. We en¬ 
treat them no longer to delay rallying round the post of duty. 
Every signature is now most valuable, as increasing the majority 
