834 ARMY FARRIERS AND SHOEING SMITHS. 
removes his men — a two years' acquaintanceship being about 
the maximum — and after he has made a series of initiations 
by way of instruction, another , of a different opinion, makes 
a second series, and so on, neither having any real termina- 
tion to their beginnings, or any chance of success. The 
cavalry veterinary surgeon has a fair opportunity of typeing 
his establishment to his mind ; but the artillery veterinary 
surgeon is compelled to type his mind to his establishment, 
as well as to a few other little matters. 
In order to enhance the usefulness of the present class 
of farriers and shoeing smiths until some scheme can be com- 
pleted and sanctioned for their proper instruction, we have 
ventured to submit a suggestion for the favorable considera- 
tion of the Right Honorable the Commander-in-Chief in 
India, through the principal veterinary surgeon (whose 
approval, we doubt not, will be given), to the following 
effect : 
That the veterinary department of every battery of artillery 
and every wing of cavalry be furnished with at least two copies 
of the ‘ Veterinary Aide Memoire’ by Colonel TV. H. Ryves , 
Commandant of the 8 th Bengal Cavalry , for the use and 
instruction of farriers and shoeing smiths in India. The 
veterinary surgeon to be held responsible for these books in 
the same way as he is responsible for other property of 
Government. 
We regret being unable to recommend any work by a 
veterinary surgeon; but having heard of nothing but a 
MS. some three years ago, we make the best suggestion we 
can. 
The work, which is in its second edition, does not presume 
to offer information to the profession it treats of, neither 
does it boast of an extraordinary amount of originality. It 
may be called an abridged or epitomised arrangement of the 
productions of various authors, in terms calculated to be 
understood by non-professional men, interspersed with the 
results of the author's experience, after a long residence in 
India, chiefly amongst horses of native cavalry regiments. 
The works quoted from are those ofYouatt, Percival, Morton, 
Spooner, Stonehenge, Mayhew, Brown, Haycock, ‘ British 
Pharmacopoeia,' and a few others. This compilation, which 
has 173 pages (is interleaved for the amateur's notes), was 
“ submitted to the criticism of a high professional authority, 
who, although differing from me in some points, has expressed 
himself very favorably regarding the publication with refer- 
ence to its intended object, and raised no particular objection 
to any part of it." 
