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EXAMINATION FOR DIPLOMA. 
unless he has passed one or the other of the previous 
examinations. 
In order to enable the councils to carry out these different 
examinations with uniformity, it will be necessary to form one 
united hoard of examiners, in order to insure that the same 
questions be placed before all the students at the different 
schools for the written examinations, as well as to enable the 
candidates to make use of the same text-books. 
The examining board should be empowered to divide 
themselves into such subdivisions as they may find desirable, 
and when these have been arranged the Council should 
announce the arrangement in somewhat the following 
manner :— 
Section 1.—Anatomical, Physiological, and Pathological, relating to the 
Horse and all Domesticated Animals. 
Examiners.—Messrs. 
Chairman.— 
Text-Books.— 
Section 2.—General Animal Economy, Principles and Practices of Shoeing, 
Jurisprudence, Veterinary Surgery, &c. 
Examiners.—Messrs. 
Chairman.— 
Text-Books.— 
Section 3.—Chemistry, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, &c. 
Examiners.—Messrs. 
Chairman.— 
Text-Books. 
It will be the duty of the examiners in these several 
sections to prepare the questions for the written examina¬ 
tions. These, having been duly prepared, will be printed by 
the college, and forwarded to the local boards, as proposed. 
The examiners will also elect one or more of their members in 
rotation to examine the papers which, when filled up, will be 
returned to the examiner so elected, who will determine by 
the number of marks which he puts on the paper the relative 
value of the answers. 
I will not now take up the pages of your Journal with 
further details ; enough has been said to secure the considera¬ 
tion of the profession. 
One word to the council of the Hoyal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons; may their deliberations be conducted in harmony 
and with goodwill towards existing institutions ; and may they 
not strive to build up new institutions wdth untempered 
mortar. 
