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present form, had the fees for examination and admission of its 
members and fellows not fallen into the treasury of the College 1 
To conclude: for our own part, we think the contribution 
levied, fair and legitimate. Every new member admitted 
ought to be obliged to contribute towards that which others 
have raised, no less for his than their own good, at a cost of 
£600, in the privileges and benefits of which he is about fully 
to participate. He ought not, he cannot in reason, expect less. 
And if, in the face of this clearly obligatory duty, he should 
object on the score of the magnitude of the sum he is charged 
with, let him be told, in answer, that he is required to do no 
more than numbers have done before him, and no more than is 
absolutely needed for the necessities of a College to which 
now he has the honour to belong. 
This and last month having afforded us an opportunity of 
submitting schedules of the rank and pay, &c. of veterinary 
officers of two, and them two of the principal, of the continental 
armies, the French and the Belgian, we have annexed a scale 
of the like honours and remunerations enjoyed by British army 
veterinary surgeons. Not that we have done so by way of 
making any comparisons or drawing any comparative inferences 
between the three national departments, since their relative 
pecuniary advantages must, of course, be considered only in 
reference to the prices of provisions, apparel, &c. in the coun¬ 
tries in which the respective armies are serving; but that w r e 
may offer a word of remark on one or two palpable and striking 
national differences in other respects, which seem worthy of 
our notice, if not of our imitation. 
A remarkable point of difference demanding our attention is 
the number of grades continental army veterinary surgeons are 
divided into as compared with our own, among whom, in point 
of fact, setting the Principal Veterinary Surgeon aside, there 
exists no grades or classes whatever. Cavalry regiments in 
the French and Belgian services would appear to have their 
first and second class assistant veterinary surgeons, and their 
first and second class full veterinary surgeons; though what 
special or particular share of duty is allotted to each rank or 
