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by them, and adhered to. Lastly, there are no lectures delivered 
at the College at this time of the year ; but may I have the plea- 
sure of hearing, after another session has passed over, that the 
Professors (excepting the Chemical Lecturer, who has always been 
noticed as an observer of punctuality), have been more punctual in 
their attendance in the College theatre than formerly? If the 
Professors are not punctual, the students are sure not to be so. 
I have written these lines in haste, trusting you will insert them, 
and that they may prove the means of the few alterations stated 
being made in the system of education now adopted at the College. 
Such a result will prove beneficial to those, at any rate, who have 
not, previous to their entering the College, been in practice ; and 
that they may prove so is the sincere wish of one who was very 
lately a student, but is now 
A Veterinary Surgeon. 
Opium not Poisonous to Rabbits. 
At a late meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Lafargue, of 
St. Emilion, communicated to the Academy a curious fact, which 
he recently observed. The indigenous poppy is so far from being 
poisonous to rabbits, that they may, on the contrary, be fed upon it. 
He has fed several rabbits for a considerable time on various parts 
of the poppy, as the leaves, stems, flowers, capsules, roots, & c., 
with perfect impunity . — Dublin Medical Press. 
A Rara Avis. 
[Copied from a Bill of a Clydesdale Stallion.] 
“He is handsome and dignified — round, fleshy, well-proportioned, 
strong and heavy, without being coarse or clumsy. His coun- 
tenance is sweet and agreeable, yet lively and spirited ; and his 
motions are steady and firm, but nimble and alert. His head is in 
due proportion to his body, rather small than large, and no way 
clumsy. His nostrils are wide, his eyes full and animated, and his 
ears erect. His neck is neither long nor slender, but strong, thick, 
and fleshy, with a good curvature, and the mane strong and bushy. 
He is broad in the breast, strong in the shoulders, the blades nearly 
as high as the chine, and not so much stretched backwards as 
those of road horses. The arm tapers to the knee. The leg rather 
short, bone broad and strong, but solid and clean. The hoof round, 
of a black colour, tough and firm, with the heels wide ; plenty of 
