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to exist if it were not worth that sum. Our object is not to 
rob the College, and we must enable them to do good to 
themselves in some other way. He thought it would be a 
simple plan to appoint a deputation in the room to seek an 
audience with the Governors, but would vote with the 
majority. 
Mr. Rogers said, many years ago, that this movement 
would come on some day, and was glad the time had arrived. 
He lately asked two guineas to go to Barnet to operate on a 
horse, but was told that a professor from the College could 
be had for nothing. 
Mr. Rowe made some lengthy remarks on the College 
fees, principally touching the low charges for shoeing. He 
had experienced great hardship from the College tariff for 
many years, and trusted that now the profession had aroused 
itself it would be united. He would adopt the suggestion 
that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons be the 
medium of communicating with the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College, and therefore proposed “that a requisi¬ 
tion be signed under Bye-law 16 and forwarded to the 
President.” 
Mr. Barker seconded. 
The Chairman , in putting this to the meeting, said that it 
would be far better that the body corporate took the matter 
up ; for if a deputation from a meeting like this went to the 
Governors, it would be stigmatised as composed of a lot of 
grumblers who could not get on, and came croaking under 
a cloud, and it probably might not be listened to. He con¬ 
sidered we had a right of appeal to the R.C.V.S. as the 
Diploma-granting body, and it ought to protect the pro¬ 
fession from causes tending to injure it. As it was, the 
Diploma was of little value when we have quacks styling 
themselves veterinary surgeons and practising as such on the 
one side, and the Royal Veterinary College taking the bread 
from our mouths on the other side. He was sure a change 
would benefit the students, and if the institution placed 
itself on terms of brotherhood with the whole of the craft 
they would undertake to furnish cases of interest for the 
students; not only that, but find them a cow or two, an 
adjunct so necessary for the tyro in cattle pathology. He 
would certainly be pleased to send interesting cases for the 
students’ benefit, but as things are he dared not even men¬ 
tion there was such a place, for fear his client should 
avail himself entirely of the cheap terms offered. When 
a pupil he was disgusted with what little practice there 
was, and felt sure no examiner could say the young 
