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SCOTCH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
College was not required, and to establish one would be an 
injustice, seeing that three-fourths of the members of the 
profession w^ere anxious that matters should remain as they 
were; that it was a national benefit that there should be only 
one Licensing College for the United Kingdom; and that the 
students educated at all the teaching colleges should be 
examined and licensed under one uniform system applicable 
to all the teaching schools together. It is quite necessary 
that this chartered College should have offices or headquarters 
somewhere, and London, for many reasons, has been selected 
for that purpose in preference to Edinburgh or Dublin; but 
because its offices are in Red Lion Square, London, that does 
not malce ‘^The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’^ an 
English institution, nor the hoard it appoints to examine stu¬ 
dents in Scotland an English hoard ; and, in point of fact, the 
examinators, with two exceptions, are Scotchmen, and some 
of them reside in Edinburgh and Glasgow. 
1 give his lordship and the corporation credit for having 
done all they possibly could to obtain a veterinary charter for 
Scotland; and while I cannot sympathise with them in their 
endeavours, I can feel the full force of his lordship^s remarks, 
that their exertions have proved unfortunately abortive/’ 
But supposing that they had been successful, it may be as 
well for the trustees of the Edinburgh Veterinary College to 
understand that the students educated at the Glasgow Vete¬ 
rinary College will continue, as hitherto, to be examined and 
licensed by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; 
and this arrangement will not in the slightest degree be 
affected by the obtaining of a Veterinary Charter for 
Scotland. 
I am, &c. 
James McCall, M.R.C.V.S., 
Principal of the Glasgow Veterinary College. 
To the Editor of the ' Scotsman^ 
