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of the Examining Board has been “ satisfied and delighted,” and 
of which even the pupils have “ acknowledged the efficiency,” we 
feel ourselves at liberty to have our say on the subject. 
The object of examination is twofold: to discover the kind of 
knowledge possessed by the pupil, and the quantum or extent of 
that knowledge ; and the closer the questions put to ascertain these 
points can be brought to take a practical turn, the more searchingly 
useful will the examination be likely to prove in the end in elicit- 
ing what qualifications the candidate is in the possession of to 
enable him to enter on the practice of his profession. 
Now, will any person assert that the old Board of Examiners, 
constituted as we know it to have been, tested by these rules, was 
a more efficient or probatory ordeal than the new Board I Will 
those members of the old Board, who are now members of the new, 
themselves say so ? Have they not expressed themselves most 
unequivocally to the contrary ? They have ; and not only the 
Examiners, one and all of them, but even the pupils, have ex- 
pressed increased satisfaction. Will the veterinary profession, 
after this, for a moment doubt that those who may henceforth enter 
their body will be qualified in a higher degree than hitherto has 
been the case] We do not mean to allege that the new mode of 
examination — though certainly so far a matured one, that it is 
the counterpart of that in practice at the College of Surgeons — is 
insusceptible of improvement : for our own part, we are of opinion 
that both the examinations at the Surgeons’ College and our own 
would be improved, could they by any means be rendered to a cer- 
tain extent really practical. Conducted, however, as ours from 
necessity at present are, in a room in a tavern, we do not well see 
how they could be better ordered, both for pupil and examiner, than 
they are at present. When we come to possess a College of our 
own to examine pupils in, with its appurtenant Museum, Infirmary, 
&c. &c., our affairs will admit of being carried on in a style more 
worthy of the chartered body of veterinary surgeons. 
We are much pleased — and so will our readers be — with Mr. 
Wright’s paper on “ The Anatomy and Physiology of the Lami- 
nated Structure of the (Horse’s) Foot.” Mr. W. denies that the 
