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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1840. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
What was the result of the meeting of “ the Medical Hono¬ 
rary Members of the College”—in plain English, “The Veterinary 
Examining Committee”—on Wednesday, the 22d of July, and at 
which “ the subjects of the Memorial were to be laid before them 
for their advice,” we cannot tell; for, although the Members of the 
Deputation were promised that “ a Committee of the Governors 
would be convened to determine thereon, and the result would be 
communicated to the Deputation,” no intelligence has yet been 
received by the chairman of that body. Perhaps they were 
wrong to expect that it would; for the Secretary of the College 
very coolly remarked, that “ it was impossible for him, at this 
season of the year, to say when the meeting would take place.” 
Well! we must wait with patience, or rather, perhaps, we do 
not altogether regret this delay, because it will enable the Depu¬ 
tation to look around them, and to ascertain, more accurately, the ' 
real wish and feeling of the profession; and to calculate the num¬ 
ber and quality of the forces which they can bring into the field. 
So far as the Editor has opportunity for observation, the prospect 
becomes daily more and more satisfactory. 
In the rapid increase of numbers—in the perfect union of senti¬ 
ment—in the deep determination to render our profession more 
worthy of the noble purposes to which it ought to be devoted— 
we see the “ Auspicium melioris sevi.” A light is bursting forth 
among us, which will kindle and spread until our profession 
assumes its true importance, and the agriculturist and the country 
rejoice in the benefits which it bestows. 
There is one circumstance which reconciles us to the knowh^dge 
that the fate of our Memorial is not yet finally decided. It is to 
undergo the consideration of the Examining Committee, a body of 
men who have not yet forgotten their own early struggles for the 
proud pre-eminence in which they are placed—men devoted to 
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