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spondence, I have thought it my duty to send tlie whole to the 
Editor of The VETERINARIAN, for insertion in that periodical. 
Your obedient Servant, 
Thos. Walton Mayer, V.S. 
To Thos. France, Esq. 
Bedford Row. 
To the Editor of‘'The Veterinarian^ 
Sir,—I shall feel obliged by your inserting in The Veterina¬ 
rian the inclosures marked one, two, three, and four, together 
with the extract contained, and believe me 
Your’s, very faithfully. 
Newcastle, 
July 17th, 1840. 
Thos. W. Mayer, V.S. 
We next insert two letters which we have received from corre¬ 
spondents. They are very different in their style, and in the views 
which the writers adopt; but each is unanswerable in its way, and 
cannot fail of making its due impression:— 
London, July 16th, 1840. 
My dear Sir,—In the leading article of your valuable periodical 
for June, you observe, that those members of the veterinary profes¬ 
sion who have not signed the petition then about to be laid before 
the Governors of the College “will be sorry for it when the battle 
is fought and won.” Now, the petition has been presented, and I, 
for one, am proud to say that I did not sign it; yet most happy 
should I be were the battle won. 
My reason for not signing the petition is, that I do not think the 
appeal has been made to the right tribunal: in other words, I do 
not recognise the right of a certain number of private individuals, 
subscribing for their own benefit to a certain institution, to control 
and regulate the profession with which that institution is connected. 
In no other profession,—in no other department of science and art, 
—in no business, even of the most ordinary description, is such an 
anomaly heard of as that of its being governed by a body of men 
