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year, — Filbert, Grapeshot, Audubon, Snowdon Dunghill, 
Brown Brandy, Barrel, and Czarina, cum multis aliis. Abused 
as these horses were, who can wonder at their becoming un- 
sound ; indeed the wonder would be how they could stand 
preparing and racing so long, and be sound. Many years 
since — in fact so long ago that I now forget the journal 
in which I published some remarks on roaring — I had an 
opportunity of witnessing the post-mortem appearances of 
several roarers; in one and all of them, I found the same 
cause prevailing, i. e. y paralysis of the muscles of the larynx. 
It is true that my experience was chiefly amongst harness- 
horses, but there was no mistaking the cause in these in- 
stances ; and I now send you a cast in wax of a well-defined 
case, and which will explain itself far better by inspection 
than I can do in attempting a description of it on paper. In 
a conversation with Professor Spooner, only a few days since, 
he stated his belief that the prevailing cause was the one I 
here allude to, and he went so far as to say that in ninety- 
nine cases in the hundred, the cause is to be found in the 
derangement of the nervous influence of the muscles of the 
larynx.” — Bell’s Life , January 15, 1854, 
The members of the Veterinary profession will feel gratified 
to learn, through our last month’s Council Report, that, at 
length, they are in possession of a house of their own, and of 
one respectable in its facade and means of accommodation, 
as well as in its situation, which, if not the most eligible 
that could be desired, is, at least for London, a quiet one, 
and one free from many annoyances to which houses of the 
same class or rental, anywise centrally placed in the metro- 
polis, are too apt to be found obnoxious. In short, to the 
house we see no reasonable objection ; but, with the appella- 
tion given to it of “ Institute,” we find a great deal of fault. 
We know of nothing to warrant an expletive or superero- 
gatory designation of this sort, save the Mechanics’ Institute : 
a name which originated with its founder, the late celebrated 
savant , Dr. Birkbeck, whose object appears to have been to 
denote by it, an institution of a lowly unpretending character. 
To give such a name to a Royal College, is evidently 
