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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
besides introducing the science about to be taught, it intro- 
duces both pupils to their teacher, and teacher to his pu- 
pils. It is a sort of first acquaintance between them. It 
enables either party to form some sort of opinion or estimate 
of the other. The teacher takes a coup dice'll of his new class ; 
the pupil scans, as far as he can, the character of his teacher. 
Each party probably comes, in his own mind, to conclusions 
which are as likely to prove erroneous as correct. 
Mr. Morton commenced by showing the necessity of his 
younger hearers forming in their minds correct principles. 
Our conditions in life may undergo various vicissitudes ; but 
facts constituting truth ever remain the same. “ Once a fact, 
always a fact.” 
The studies in which the pupil is to be engaged, “ em- 
brace the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the horse, 
ox, sheep, pig, and dog, i. e. } and of domesticated animals 
generally.” Varied and manifold are the inquiries these 
subjects, special though they be, lead us into ; while, on the 
one hand, they^ engage us in anatomy, physiology, che- 
mistry, botany, &c. ; on the other, they call our attention.to 
the principles and practice of shoeing, and the laws of vete- 
rinary jurisprudence. But, observes the intelligent lec- 
turer, such a course of attendance only prepares the mind 
to receive impressions, and they but too frequently prove 
evanescent. It is by reflection on what he has heard, that 
the pupil can familiarisehim self with the truths enunciated, 
so as permanently and indelibly to stamp them upon the 
tablet of his memory. “ The utmost the lecturer can do, is 
to give the pupil little more than an outline of his subject, 
graphic and correct though it may and should be this out- 
line must be filled up by the pupil himself “ by subsequent study.” 
Theory must be verified by practice. The pupil will have 
ample opportunity of putting his practical te tact ” to the test 
by a close and regular attendance upon the stables and the 
forge. 
To become an able anatomist, he must work for himself 
in the dissecting-room. By this, and this alone, can he 
thoroughly learn anatomy. Anatomy, the foundation of 
medical science, the ground-work of physiology ; the two 
