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Artillery), he attended the animal for some time (after l had con- 
demned it for slaughter), and at length gave it up as hopeless. 
I was informed that several horses belonging to the battery to 
which this farrier was attached, were attacked with glanders, and 
were destroyed. As to the truth of the latter I cannot, of my own 
knowledge, vouch, but there is but little doubt of it. 
Within the past few months, I have frequently observed a farrier 
walking about the town, sometimes with a bottle of embrocation in 
his hand, at others with a can of foot-dressing, and it has so 
happened that I have seen him go into and out of stables, where I 
knew something was amiss. 
If the rules of the service are such that veterinary surgeons can 
practise privately, the sooner they are altered the better; and, as to 
the farriers being allowed the privilege, is a step in a retrograde 
direction. 
Veterinary College, Edinburgh ; 
May 10 thy 1870. 
Sir, — 1 have to complain of the unbusinesslike manner in 
which the examination of the Edinburgh and Glasgow students is 
reported in your last number. Thirty-one candidates are there 
named as being successful; but no attempt is made to separate 
those of Edinburgh from those of Glasgow, although Dr. Dunsmure 
had promised me that such would be done. I have therefore to 
explain that out of this number (thirty-one), nine only were 
from the Glasgow College; and the remaining tw r enty-two from 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College. Trusting you will see fit to 
remedy this mistake of the Secretary of the lloyal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons in your next number, 
I remain, sir, &c. 
W. Williams, F.R.S.E., 
Principal. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Veterinarian * 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office, Pall Mall; May Ylth. 
Veterinary Department. — First-Class Veterinary- Surgeon 
William Death, from the late Military Train, to be veterinary- 
surgeon. First-Class Veterinary-Surgeon Henry Dawson, from the 
14th Hussars, to be veterinary-surgeon. First-Class Veterinary- 
Surgeon John James Channon, from the late Military Train, to be 
veterinary-surgeon. First-Class Veterinary-Surgeon George Long- 
man, from the late cavalry depot, to be veterinary-surgeon. 
EKRA.TUM IN NO. 509 . 
At page 355, line 18, for “ the tendon begins to commence” read “the 
tendon begins” 
