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PRESENTATION OF THE MEMORIAL 
Tlie Chairman. —Have you done so ] 
Mr. King. —There has not been time for it. 
Mr. Behrens .—What, besides, do you expect to obtain by the 
charter 1 
The Chairman. —I conclude that you wish to be placed on an 
equality with the human practitioner in these respects h 
Mr. King. —Precisely so. 
The Chairman.-^T\\Q human surgeon cannot prevent Morison 
or any quack from selling his pills. Nevertheless, I think it ex¬ 
ceedingly important that you should possess the immunities to 
which you refer. 
Mr. Behrens. —So far as your practice and the sale of your 
medicines are concerned, the possession of a charter would be of 
little advantage to you. 
Mr. Mayer replied that the blacksmith and the cowleech would 
no longer be able to assume with impunity, and with essential in¬ 
jury to the former, titles which did not belong to them. The term 
veterinary surgeon” would be confined to him alone who had 
pursued, at the proper institution, the appointed course of veteri¬ 
nary study. 
Professor Sewell. —Are you not aware that a charter has already 
but unsuccessfully been applied for ] 
Mr. Mayer replied in the affirmative. 
The Chairman took it for granted that a strong body of the 
profession was favourable to the prayer of the Memorial. The 
Memorial might be received as an expression of the feeling and 
wishes of the profession. 
Mr. Mayer. —Decidedly so; and in corroboration of this, he 
had several letters now in his hand, and, indeed, he had brought the 
whole of the letters with him to the metropolis. With the consent 
of the Chairman he would read a few extracts from those he now 
held, adding that, with very slight variation, he had the recorded 
opinion of 315 licensed veterinary surgeons — a very decided 
majority of those who have obtained diplomas from the College. 
Mr. Mayer first read an extract from a letter received from Mr. 
Pritchard, of Wolverhampton, because it bore on the point which, 
as yet, had been principally adverted to. We must apply our 
