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a student to attend two winters’ lectures on chemistry 
(theoretical), when students of the higher branch of medi- 
cine are only required to attend one winter course of lectures 
on this subject. The summer between the two winter 
sessions might with advantage he used in teaching practical 
chemistry and veterinary materia medica, and such subjects 
as could be taught in summer, so as to relieve the winter 
sessions. I am strongly disposed to think that a vast amount 
of good work could he done in two winters and a longer 
summer sessions, provided intelligent students presented 
themselves (who had been with a practitioner for a couple of 
years), and the time at college not so much taken up with 
superfluous lectures. 
As I have before said, the court of examiners can rectify 
whatever is wrong in our system of tuition ; for if students 
are required to do the things, which it is now only necessary 
that they should he able to tell how they are to be done in 
order to get the diploma, their teachers would, with ease and 
advantage change the present system, and we should then 
have good, thorough-going veterinary surgeons sent out of 
our Qolleges. 
[We publish Mr. Fearnley’s paper verbatim et literatim 
to avoid the risk of misstating his views ; but we deem it 
right to express our conviction that his strictures on the sys- 
tem of tuition by aid of lectures are far too sweeping. He 
surely does not mean what he states, namely, that, “let him 
(the lecturer) know his subject never so well, and his mode of 
communicating his knowledge he faultless, he is wasting his 
time and the time of his hearers, when they have everything 
he can tell them printed legibly and intelligible in their text 
hooks.” Can Mr. Fearnley refer us to the text-hooks which 
contain all that a lecturer well acquainted with the subject 
of medical or veterinary science can tell his pupils ?] 
ANEMIA IN BEASTS. 
By James Macer, M.R.C.V.S.L., Somersham, Hunts. 
Jn conjunction with Mr. Hill, student of the Royal 
Veterinary College, I was requested to examine a herd of 
beasts twenty in number, the ages of which would average 
about two years. 
Previous to our seeing them on July 26th they had been 
