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till 6th February, 1862., and from that date to the greater 
increase of three shillings and sixpence per diem, so that up 
to this time your petitioner has been a loser of about £250 
by the order of the Governor-General dated 3rd April, I860, 
above quoted. 
4. That, besides the loss of pay, your petitioner is also 
likely to suffer from loss of rank, as February surgeons of the 
Royal Army, according to the Royal Warrant of 1859, take 
rank as subalterns on joining, and are eligible for pro¬ 
motion to the grade of {( first class/’ with the rank of 
captain, after five years’ service; whereas your petitioner 
must serve ten years before he can attain the rank of 
lieutenant. 
5. That promotion on examination under the Royal 
Warrant of 1859 has been withheld from your petitioner, as 
within the last two years he has on three several occasions 
made application for an examination to the Horse Guards, 
through his Excellency the Commander in Chief of the 
Madras Army, unsuccessfully. 
6. That as the Royal Medical Warrant of 1858 has been 
carried out with retrospective effect, so the Royal Veterinary 
Warrant dated 1st July, 1859, still held in abeyance as far 
as Her Majesty’s Indian services are concerned, may in like 
manner be carried out with retrospective effect from the date 
thereof. 
And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
F. G. Shaw, 
Veterinary Surgeon , Remount Depot, 
Oossoor . 
COMMUNICATION FROM MR. MITCHELL, IN 
REPLY TO MR. E. C. DRAY. 
Leeds ; Nov . 1 Mh , 1864. 
Gentlemen, —I shall not trespass upon your space 
further than to state that my professional brethren, whom I 
have consulted, not only do not agree with the remarks of 
Mr. Edward Coleman Dray in your last number, but con¬ 
sider them impertinent, and even unjustifiable. I may also 
state, that they, being members of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, were not a portion of the happy trio 
who did “ not consider me any acquisition to their society.” 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Yours respectfully. 
To the Editors of * The Veterinarian* 
