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VETERINARY AFFAIRS. 
when that is received, a Committee of the Governors will be con¬ 
vened to determine thereon, and the result will be communicated 
to 5 mu. It is impossible for me, at this season of the year, to say 
when the meeting will take place. 
I am. Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
Thos. France. 
(Extract) 
Mr. Thos. Turner, Mr. King, Mr. Thomas Mayer, jun., and 
several other members of the veterinary profession, attended, and 
presented a Memorial on behalf of themselves and others, signed 
by 315 of that body, which being read, the heads of which were, 
requesting the Governors to procure a charter and an act of par¬ 
liament, to prevent illiterate men, who had not obtained a diploma, 
from practising, or writing up that they had been educated at the 
College, by which means discredit is brought on the profession; 
to increase the fee paid by pupils to thirty guineas or more; and 
certain regulations to be adopted respecting students who had been 
apprenticed to members. After fully hearing the Deputation and 
various letters read, the Deputation was informed, that the Govern¬ 
ors have had the subject of the Memorial under their very serious 
consideration, and would most readily concur with the wishes of 
the Deputation in taking the earliest opportunity of submitting such 
measures as may seem most advisable to the proper authorities; 
but that the Governors saw no reason to alter their opinion, which 
they had formed upon very mature consideration, on the subject of 
the recommendation as to the increase of the lecturers and the fees 
paid by the pupils. 
4. ( Copy .) 
Newcastle, Staffordshire, 
July 17th, 1840. 
Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, &c. of 
the 18th; and as it is of the utmost importance for the profession to 
have the most correct information on the subject of our corre- 
