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PRESENTATION OE" THE MEMORIAL 
Mr. Mayer begged to hint, before they were dismissed, that the 
subject of fees had not been satisfactorily discussed. They were 
now lower than during his pupillage, and far lower than the pro¬ 
fession thought they ought to be. 
Mr. Behrens. —The directors had determined to refer the scale 
of fees to the consideration of the Examining Committee. They— 
the directors—saw no reason for altering their opinion; but if the 
Examining Committee thought it advisable that a change should 
be effected, they w'ould again take the matter into consideration. 
Mr. Mayer asked, whether they were to understand that all the 
other subjects of the Memorial were also to be referred to the Exa¬ 
miners’ Board. How would they make up the deficiency, if another 
professorship, which the memorialists deemed to be indispensable, 
was established, except by raising the fees of the pupil, or en¬ 
croaching on the funds of the College ? 
The Chairman. —With respect to the additional professorship 
that you wish to have established, we have fully considered the 
subject. We have communicated with the Agricultural Society 
with regard to it, and they feel satisfied with the exertions which 
Professors Sewell and Spooner are making. 
Mr. Mayer would wish it to be understood, that the desire which 
pervaded the whole profession for the appointment of a third pro¬ 
fessor, and his labours to be confined to instruction in the patho¬ 
logy of cattle, arose not from any feeling of the incompetency of 
Professor Sewell, but from the plain and manifest fact, that if j us- 
tice Avere done to the new system of veterinary education, he Avould 
be called upon to do that which no man ever did or could accom¬ 
plish. Many a time and oft the veterinary practitioner would be 
called to the treatment of a case which had never been satisfactorily 
explained to him, simply because impossibilities could not be ac¬ 
complished. He feared that too many of the pupils who emanated 
from their school would be placed in this painful and disgraceful 
situation. 
The Chairman. —The Examining Committee Avill best decide 
on the appointment of another professor, and Ave shall leave the 
matter to them. 
Mr. Mayer again expressed the earnest Avish of the profession 
