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MISCELLANEA. 
at the Institution, or who has been studying therein since the esta¬ 
blishment of the Board of Examiners of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, whether this paragraph states truth or not? 
Whether, on the contrary, every pupil who has qualified himself 
for examination has not appeared before the last-mentioned Board 
of Examiners I and whether, if there be any such Board of Exa¬ 
miners in existence as is named in the advertisement, any students 
have presented themselves before it for examination! The pages 
of The Veterinarian will shew what pupils have passed their 
examinations, and before whom they have passed them; and this, 
as all the profession knows, is the true and only examination from 
which pupils can derive certificates to practise the veterinary art 
as admitted members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
In our present Number our readers will find a letter addressed to 
the Editor of “ Bell's Life," commenting on the advertisement in 
question, which will further explain its nature and tendency. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Remarks on an Advertisement from the Royal 
Veterinary College. 
Mr. Editor,— Knowing you to be a lover of fair play in every 
sense of the word has induced me to offer a few remarks on an 
advertisement which I read in your paper of the 9th inst., as ema¬ 
nating from the Royal Veterinary College at St. Pancras, but from 
whom, directly, it comes, does not appear, or by whose authority, 
as there is no signature attached; but a more decided advertise¬ 
ment to endeavour to gain subscribers to an institution I have not 
seen for some time, or one more calculated to injure the profession 
of which that institution forms a part, but which ought to have 
been the head. I have no wish to quarrel with the Professors 
there ; but when they advertise, or sanction an advertisement, 
such as the one I allude to, I think they ought to have the candour 
to see that every part of their advertisement is brought before the 
public in its proper colouring. It is, most probably, not unknown 
to you that, a few years ago, her most gracious Majesty was pleased 
to grant to the veterinary profession a charter of incorporation, 
