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PRESENTATION OF THE MEMORIAL 
If the admission was made forty guineas instead of twenty, it 
would not be a fraction too muck; for let it no longer be said> that 
one of the lecturers, and one of the most talented and deserving, 
officiates as a clerk. I perfectly agree with the remarks of the 
Editor of The VeterinarIx-IN on this subject; he has placed the 
situation of that truly intelligent man, Mr. Morton, in its proper light. 
Mr, Mayer stated, that if he produced the whole of the letters 
which he had received on this subject, they would be found to con¬ 
tain sentiments of precisely the same purport. This was not a 
measure got up by a few factious and disappointed individuals,— 
it expressed the feelings and the wishes of the united body. He 
scarcely knew a similar instance on record, in which so great a 
majority of a profession united together for the accomplishment of 
one definite object. He was assured that it would receive from 
the governors the dispassionate consideration which its import¬ 
ance demanded. 
On one subject he might be permitted to touch before he sat 
down—the disproportionate and disgraceful smallness of the fee, 
compared with that at any of the institutions for the education of the 
human surgeon. He would refer to that noble establishment Guy’s 
Hospital, and to which so many of the Examining Board had be¬ 
longed, or did continue to belong. All expenses being included, 
it was four times that required from the pupil at the Veterinary 
College. Why v/as this ? What was the impression which it 
would make on the public? How disgraceful must our paltry fee 
appear in the estimation of those who had the interests of the veteri¬ 
nary profession at heart ? Respectfully, but earnestly, he called on 
the governors to wipe away this reproach, and by the increased 
initiatory fee, to let it appear to the public that they did not con¬ 
ceive of the veterinary profession as a study of little worth, but 
that there Avas something in the education of the veterinary surgeon 
which deserved some greater expenditure of money and of time. 
Mr. Behrens remarked, that the greater number of these points, 
and particularly the amount of the fee to be demanded of the pupil, 
had been thoroughly discussed by the governors during the last 
session, and it was unanimously agreed, that all that could be done 
at that time had been done. The Professors had been consulted 
