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THE VETElllNAllY PROFESSION. 
municate to me, also for a copy of the Resolution of the Committee 
of Governors upon which Professor Sewell’s assertion was founded, 
with the date, and for the opinion of the Examining Committee 
on the several propositions contained in the Memorial, in order 
that I may communicate them to the Deputation, and, if they think 
proper, to the Members at large who have signed that document. 
I remain. 
Your obedient Servant, 
Tho. Walton Mayer, V.S. 
To Tho. France, Esq. 
(Sec. pro. teni ) 
London. 
3. (CojjyJ. 
Bedford Row, 
16th 1840. 
Sir,—On the other half sheet you have a copy of the minute of 
the proceedings of the Governors on the 10th June, when you pre¬ 
sented your Memorial. There will be a meeting of the Medical 
Honorary Members of the College on Wednesday next, when the 
subjects of the Memorial will be laid before them for their advice: 
when that is received, a Committee of the Governors will be con¬ 
vened to determine thereon, and the result will be communicated 
to you. 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 w'ould most readily concur with the wishes of 
