10 THE HISTORY OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 



doubted, and even far greater ability, not one of them, 

 while he lived, rose to be his rival ; though, now that he is 

 dead, the meanest amongst them ranks as his superior. 

 The fact was, Coleman enjoyed great fluency, with much 

 cunning, and consummate worldly ability ; to these he 

 owed the position which he held, and the emoluments he 

 acquired. When viewed calmly as a professor and a veteri- 

 narian, he becomes small indeed. While yet Coleman lived, 

 the establishment over the welfare of which he presided, 

 fell from being held high in the public estimation into utter 

 insignificance and positive stagnation ; it lost a place which 

 it may be very long before it regains. He invented nothing 

 that did not prove an egregious failure ; he wrote nothing 

 that is now esteemed an authority ; he did nothing for the 

 art ; he accomplished every thing for himself, and the 

 nature of his ability is shown in nothing more than the firm 

 manner in which he managed to make not only the public, 

 but the profession believe in his imposture. 



After Coleman's death, Mr. Sewell took the place of 

 head professor ; which post he, until a recent period, re- 

 tained, though he had long retired from the exercise of all 

 its active duties. 



Mr. Spooner has now been appointed head professor of ana- 

 tomy, physiology, pathology, shoeing, surgery, and practice ; 

 Mr. Simonds has been added to the staff, and has been 

 instituted lecturer upon the anatomy, physiology, and 

 pathology of the ox, sheep, and dog, together with the 

 operations which the accidents and diseases of these animals 

 may require ; Mr. Morton retains his old post, for which 

 he is eminently qualified, as lecturer on general chemistry 

 and veterinary materia medica. 



Any one looking at the Veterinary College, will perceive 

 it has not greatly improved since Coleman's death. One 

 professor (Mr. Simonds) has been added to the establish- 

 ment, but another (Mr. Sewell) has been snatched from all 

 participation in its active duties. Thus the medical stafi" 

 remains virtually the same, though nominally enlarged, 

 while the school has experienced the loss of Coleman's 

 dulcet notes, whicli had the power to gild the wrong. 



To amend such a state of things, and introduce renewed 

 vitahty into the dormant profession, her present Majesty was 



