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profession, such may reasonably be expected to bring forth 
fruits meet for advancement ; but where the opposite class 
abound, there, may opposite results be looked for. Our 
profession, as it at present stands, may be regarded as one 
composed both of men of education and of men without 
education. In such an incongruous mass it is difficult to 
create harmony or union. One set will naturally pull one 
way, one another ; one will follow one course, one another ; 
habit and thought will take them different ways ; nor will 
there, but in few cases, or indeed can there be expected 
to be, cordiality and harmony reigning among them. We 
know, indeed we see ^in the medical profession, composed 
now of educated men almost exclusively — that other causes of 
disagreement and separation will arise: but, in addition to 
all this, the veterinary profession has to contend with the 
radical, though in time removable, impediment, of being made 
up of men of different and indeed opposite ways of think- 
ing and acting. 
Between the different sections of the Veterinary profes- 
sion, as it now stands — Royal College, Schools, men of the 
Army, and Body of Practitioners — nothing, perhaps, would 
tend more to produce a happy and good understanding than 
union and amalgamation in the transaction of their business. 
The Royal College wants a college ; the school needs to be 
in the heart of the metropolis ; it is possible to effect both 
these desiderata by the erection or taking of some appro- 
priate building in some central situation. Then, would 
college be school, and school be college; and both might 
have its patients, its museum, its library, its place of general 
resort, &c. &c. When the lease of the present school — 
which we understand is nearly run out — shall have expired, 
let such amove be made as will combine these great objects; 
and, so far at least, place the Veterinary profession upon a 
footing which it has never yet had, and never lacked more 
than at the present moment. 
