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To the Editor of '* The Veterinarian/’ 
Sir,—I n the recently-published Register of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, I am mentioned as an ex- 
officio Member of the Examining Board. As the announce¬ 
ment is made without my wish or sanction, I trust you will 
allow me to state, through the medium of your Journal, that I 
have not, and shall for the future decline to have, any con¬ 
nection whatever with the Board in question. 
I am, Sir, 
Your’s obediently, 
John Barlow. 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, 
March 15, 1852. 
MR. DAWTREY’S EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF 
BLABER v. GRIFFINHOOFF. 
Sir,—I n your last publication there is a report of a trial, 
Blaber v. Griffinhooff, held at Brighton in November last, and 
also a letter from Mr. Mannington concerning the same. I 
think that it would have been more fair and impartial had you 
published my reply at the same time, as it would have put 
your readers in a more proper position to judge of the merits of 
the case.* Notwithstanding your not having done so, I should 
not have troubled myself concerning the same, as I believe that 
99 out of 100 persons living in the locality, and capable of 
giving an opinion on the subject, are perfectly satisfied of the 
propriety of the verdict given by the learned judge on that 
occasion; but as the evidence, as reported in your publication, 
has put words into my mouth that I never uttered, and which 
must make me look ridiculous in the eyes of the profession, 
viz., wherein I am there stated to have said that the lateral 
cartilages do not rise above the level of the hoof, I trust that 
you will in your next give insertion to the following short 
statement of the case. Had you have reported the trial as 
given in the Brighton Gazette of the 27th of November, and 
my answer to Mr. M. in the same paper of the 11th of 
December, I think that your readers would then be able to 
judge better of the real merits of the case, and that the verdict 
was a perfectly just one. 
On the trial I stated, and explained to the Court from a 
specimen placed in my hands by Mr. M. himself, that the 
cartilages anteriorly, where he described them as being subject 
* The paper from which the trial was taken contained no such “reply.” — 
Ed. Vet. 
