796 VETERINARY PROFESSION V. ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
wealthiest men in the country. These gentlemen subscribed 
because they got a large amount of work done for next to 
nothing. The system is degrading, and lowers us in public 
estimation, for these gentlemen hold our calling in low 
esteem when so much can be done for so little. It is most 
unfair to the practitioners all over the country, the money 
acquired thus by the College really belongs to the practi¬ 
tioners. I am sure until this system is abolished the pro¬ 
fession cannot stand in the position it ought to occupy; and 
as the subscribers increase the grievance will be felt more 
and more. I deeply sympathise with you. The profession 
must unite and bring pressure to bear. The Governors have 
no idea what is done at the College, or how the school is 
conducted, and gentlemen such as they are would not 
go into unfair competition. The school should be a scien¬ 
tific institution—they forget that; not an establishment 
to undersell or compete with its own members all over 
the country. Explain these matters to the Governors, and 
1 feel sure they will do all they can to remove this 
practice. 
Mr. Greaves (Manchester), although not mingling in the 
dispute, had asked himself the question, “ If such circum¬ 
stances existed where he practised, what view should he 
take of them ?” (Hear, hear.) And he certainly should be 
aggrieved and feel it a duty to get rid of them. It only 
wanted nice management, and if the facts were laid before 
the Governors they were gentlemen who would listen, and 
soon, he felt sure, dispel all grievances. He thought per¬ 
haps a deputation from this meeting might be sufficient 
without going to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
He also added some remarks on the examination of horse’s 
fee, and considered a guinea was a fair one, and ought to be 
general. 
Mr. Freeman (Hull), although not feeling the competition 
from a pecuniary point of view, said it was of professional 
interest, and the success of the movement had his best 
wishes, and thought the Governors could not thoroughly 
understand the matter. 
Mr. Dyer spoke of his inability to get more than half a 
guinea for examinations, doubtless owing to the College 
doing it for a paltry sum. 
Mr. Hunting spoke at some length, in the course of which 
he observed, that not only did the College compete unfairly 
in the subscription system, but in shoeing also. It devoted 
itself to shoeing. If the two guineas was a subscription to 
the College as a scientific institution it should not be allowed 
