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many it is known now, and medicine is sustained by the 
knowledge ; but in the future all must know it ; it must be 
the perennial force hidden in our hearts ; our unspoken 
secret, worthless were it revealed. It must be the bond 
between ourselves, holding us as brethren in such subtle 
sympathy that envy shall be an instantly detected deformity, 
repulsive and retreating. It must be the bond between our- 
selves and the world, by which the world shall hold to us 
neither from wonder, nor admiration, nor other doubtful 
quality of recognition, but from confiding, habitual, abiding 
trust. Above all, it must be the fountain of our inspiration 
from the Lord of nature, whose whole scheme and design 
of creation, however strange it may seem, and to feeble 
sight devious, is ever toward and for the perfected happi- 
ness of His worlds of life.” — Lancet. 
My dear Sir, — I send herewith the result of the preliminary 
examination of the students commencing their studies at the Vete- 
rinary College. Most of the exercises given in were perfect, and 
show that the students could have stood a much higher test than 
that to which they were subjected. Indeed, the impression left on 
my mind was, that most of those who joined the College were much 
more cultivated than they are generally believed to be ; and I feel 
convinced that if the examination now instituted is continued here 
and in Glasgow, and by degrees made higher, you will have as can- 
didates for the veterinary profession a body of gentlemen who will 
be sure to command the respect and confidence of the public. 
A few of those examined were somewhat deficient, especially 
in parsing, as you will see by my marks ; but almost all these assured 
me that they had just come up from the country, ignorant alto- 
gether of the examination to which they were to be subjected. 
Wishing all success to this most praiseworthy effort to raise a pro- 
fession which, from its demand for a scientific culture, ought to be 
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATION. 
John C. Atkinson 
Crewe. 
Glasgow. 
James Mills . 
C. B. Markings 
William Martin 
John Anderson 
Saffron Walden. 
Newport, Fife. 
Aberdeenshire. 
Shotley Bridge. 
Greenock. 
William Wheatley 
Arthur Macfarlane 
