18 i USING A GLANDERED HOUSE IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE. 
warded to me by Mr. Mavor, one of the gentlemen who 
examined the horse at the request of Mr. Dollar. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Yours, &c., 
G. W. Varnell. 
To the Editors of the * Veterinarian * 
77, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, W.; 
February 15 , 1859 . 
Dear Mr. Varnell, —Had I not been made subservient 
to the ends of a design, certainly not creditable, on the part 
of Mr. Dollar against yourself, I should still have felt dis¬ 
posed to protest, as I now do most strongly, against his con¬ 
duct as one professional man towards another. I allude, of 
course, to his late futile attempt to compromise your scien¬ 
tific reputation, and thereby improve his own. 
I feel assured that the exceptions will be few among us 
who will not reprobate his motives, and feel alarmed by the 
idea that such proceedings must prejudice our claim to be 
recognised as gentlemen, and members of an honorable 
society. 
When giving my “ reported opinion,” I had no idea of the 
purpose for which, it is now clear, it was chiefly sought; 
otherwise, my name would never have been lent to so very 
pitiful an affair. 
As Mr. Dollar has taken such pains to show his indiffer¬ 
ence as to the nature of the means by which he proposes to 
attain an end, he cannot complain if I bear additional testi¬ 
mony to his indifference by stating that, prior to receiving 
my certificate, he requested me to suppress such remarks in it as 
those which relate to the evidence of a former state of disease . 
Should you feel disposed to hand this note over to your col¬ 
leagues, the Editors of e the Veterinarian for publication, I 
have no objection to your doing so; in fact, I should rather 
prefer it, as I do not wish it to be supposed that I was in 
any way privy to the attack Mr. Dollar evidently contem¬ 
plated making upon you when he obtained my certificate. 
With kind regards, believe me. 
Dear Mr. Varnell, yours most sincerely, 
William Mayor, V.S. 
