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SCOTCH VETERINAllY COLLEGE. 
Veterinary College, Glasgow ; 
Nov. 30//^, 1868. . 
Sir, —In your issue of 26th inst., and under the columns 
headed Retiring Address by the Lord Provost/^ I observed 
his lordship was reported to have stated, the students 
taught in the Scotch veterinary schools, of which the late 
Mr. Dick^s college is one, need still to submit themselves for 
diplomas to a Board of Examinators deputed by the Royal 
Veterinary College of England—this seems an injustice which 
ought not much longer to continue.^^ 
As an interested party, and the only other one having a 
veterinary school in Scotland besides the one in Edinburgh, 
would you kindly allow me space for a few remarks on this 
subject. I may premise that I was in opposition to the mea¬ 
sures adopted by the lord provost and magistrates of Edin¬ 
burgh for creating by charter a licensing college for Scotland. 
I have to take exception to his lordship^s statement that there 
is such a licensing institution in existence as ^^The Royal 
Veterinary College of England,'’^ and as a matter of fact there 
is no such institution ; and it is impossible, therefore, for 
Scotch students ‘^having to submit themselves /br diplomas to 
a board of examinators deputed by the Royal Veterinary Col¬ 
lege of England. 
The Licensing College for Great Britain and Ireland in 
veterinary degrees is The Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons^^—an institution chartered by government,and managed 
solely by the members of the veterinary profession. This 
College is not constituted, neither is it managed, by the mem¬ 
bers of the veterinary profession in England, but by the 
members of that profession in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
In proof of this assertion, I may state that, in the years 
1862-63, the late Professor Dick was one of its six vice-pre¬ 
sidents; and, at the present time. Professor Williams, prin¬ 
cipal of the Edinburgh Veterinary College, and myself, held 
a similar official connection. I regret that his lordship did 
not point out wherein the injustice he complained of con¬ 
sisted. The grounds upon which the opposition offered by 
myself and others proceeded were, inter alia, that the obtain¬ 
ing the charter for Scotland would split the profession into 
two or three antagonistic sections j that another Licensing 
