xxxvi On Comparative Anatomy, and the 



at present veterinary schools are as regularly organized 

 throughout France, as schools for arts and sciences. The ce- 

 lebrated D'Aubenton, the friend of the count de Buffon, pre- 

 sided over the school at Charenton, and after^vards at Ram- 

 bouillet, on the removal of the national farm to that place. 

 All these establishments being directed by men of zeal and 

 science, and set on foot and supported by government, gave 

 a degree of respectability unknown before to the study, and 

 so completely removed all former prejudices against it, that 

 it soon afterwards became very generally cultivated by peo- 

 ple of education throughout the kingdom. 



The example set by France w as soon followed in Vienna 

 hy Maria Theresa, and her successor Joseph the second ^ by 



Denmark, Sweden, and Prussia ; and last of all England 



The veterinary college was established in London in the 

 year 1790 ; and 1500 pounds sterling are annually granted by 

 government for its support. No person is permitted to oifer 

 as a candidate for the post of veterinary surgeon in the ar- 

 my, without attending a stated time, the lectures and demon- 

 strations of the professor, and undergoing an examination, 

 conducted by some of the most eminent medical and surgi- 

 cal characters in London, who from patriotic motives take 

 on themselves that trouble. The professor of the college is 

 Edward Coleman, a regular bred surgeon. The Dublin so- 

 ciety, which is liberally endowed by the government of that 

 country, and which has done so much for the improvement 

 of Ireland, has also established a veterinary professorship, 

 and a regular bred physician (Dr. Peel) gives lectures on 

 the subject. 



It remains for this country, in which the spirit for im- 

 provement in stock of every kind is so visibly increasing, 

 and the value of which is enhanced by the high price and 

 the growing demand for some of them ,• to follow those ex- 

 amples ; and by advancing the art to a height as yet unat- 

 taincd, to make it amends for the neglect we have hitherto 

 shown it. Indeed I am persuaded that in a short time the 



