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not deem me an opponent * in this department of Science, when I was 

 honoured with the following letter. 



Royal Veterinary College, 27 th August, 1829. 

 My Dear Sir, 

 I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and I bee 

 to assure you, that I have no objection whatever to the formation of one 

 or more Veterinary Schools in London. In talents, in knowledge, in zeal; 

 and industry, I am aware that you and your friends will be formidable 

 opponents but I have no desire to monopolize all the Veterinary students 

 and I shall never oppose you, or any other gentleman,! who without de- 

 preciating the characters of others, seeks honourably to establish his own 

 reputation by his own merits. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient humble servant, 



EDWARD COLEMAN. * 

 To II. W. DEWHURST, Esq. 



FROM SIR JAMES M'GRIGOR. 



Army Medical Department, December, 1829. 

 Dear Sin, 

 I have been duly favoured with your letter of the 25th ult., and am 

 aware of your competency as a teacher on the subject, but medical officers 

 of the army are not required to engage in those studies.^ 

 I have the honour to be, dear Sir, 



Your most obedient humble servant, 

 J. M'GRIGOR, Director General. 



Being a Candidate for the Office of Secretary to the Royal Humane 

 Society, || in 1830, the two following testimonials were given to me, in 

 addition to the others I then produced. 



* I may observe that my intended colleagues were bitterly opposed 

 to that gentleman from private motives, while I had every reason to be 

 otherwise ; this will explain the reason of my writing to him on the subject 



t Since this was written, my friend Professor Youatt has ably suc- 

 ceeded in establishing a Veterinary class in the University of London. 



% This gentleman is the Professor of Veterinary Anatomy, Physiolo°r, 

 and Pathology, to the College. He is the author of a splendid work on the 

 Structure and Economy of the Horse's Foot ; and I have on several oc- 

 casions experienced the liberal kindness of this truly talented individual, 

 which I have much pleasure in publicly acknowledging. 



§ Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Zoology, &c. &c. 



|| From what I have since heard, I should have succeeded in obtaining 



