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under the title of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. To 
the petition for this boon to the profession were attached the names 
of Professors Sewell, C. Spooner, and J. B. Sirnonds. Two of 
them lent pecuniary assistance, with several others, for the purpose 
of meeting the expenses consequent upon obtaining it. One of 
them even begged to have his name introduced with the petition, 
and the name of a highly respected individual was erased in 
order to allow of its being introduced. One of the objects and pur¬ 
poses of that charter is that the Council shall have the entire ma¬ 
nagement of the affairs of the body politic and corporate, &c. (as 
appears on page 8 of the charter), and shall also make orders, 
rules, and by-laws, &c., and fix and determine on the place and 
manner of examining students who shall have been educated at 
the Royal Veterinary College of London or the Veterinary College 
of Edinburgh, and for regulating the nature and extent of such exa¬ 
mination, and for the appointment of persons to examine and de¬ 
termine on the fitness and qualifications of such students, and for 
the admission or rejection of such students as members of the body 
politic and corporate. That the members of the body politic and 
corporate, solely and exclusively of all other persons whomsoever, 
shall be deemed, and taken, and recognised, to be members of the 
said profession, or professors of the said art, and shall be individually 
known and distinguished by the title of veterinary surgeon. Such, 
Mr. Editor, is one great object of the charter ; yet in the face of 
that very charter (for which the Professors attached their names to 
the petition) is an advertisement put forth to the public, stating 
that the pupils, after having attended the prescribed course of 
study, are subjected to an examination by a board of examiners com¬ 
posed of eminent medical and veterinary practitioners, appointed 
by the governors of the institution. Seeing such an advertisement, 
I could not help taking up my pen; because I consider it as cal¬ 
culated to mislead many young men, and cause them to believe 
that passing an examination within the walls of the College of 
St. Pancras now will entitle them to the diploma of a veterinary 
surgeon. Such, I most unhesitatingly say, is not the case. A 
few years have brought about a change. There is now a regular 
Board of Examiners appointed by the Council, and those only who 
pass their examination before that Board can receive the diploma 
of a veterinary surgeon, or be admitted as members of the body 
politic, &c. As regards the internal private affairs of the College, 
the Council, as far as I know, cannot interfere, neither have they 
any wish to do so. There is one more subject I cannot help 
alluding to, as it affects the profession, and that is, the paltry way 
of advertising medicines (prepared at the College at an expense so 
