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WHAT DOES “ YETERINARIUS” MEAN BY 
“ INSTINCT]” 
Sir, — In The Veterinarian for August I find a short extract 
from Archbishop Whately’s excellent thoughts on Instinct, which 
extract has brought forth certain strictures upon it from a writer 
who signs himself “ Veterinarius.” These strictures appear in The 
Veterinarian of the present month (September). Now, as the 
question of instinct is one, to my mind, of peculiar interest, I should 
like to make a few observations upon what “ Veterinarius,” has 
said; but, previous to doing so, I should prefer something from him 
upon the question of a more precise and definite character. Will 
“Veterinarius,” then, be so kind as to define what it is that HE 
means by the term instinct ? By doing so I shall feel obliged. 
Your’s truly, 
Logos. 
September 16 th, 1840. 
Extracts from Foreign Journals. 
Compte-Rendu of the Transactions at the Royal Vete- 
rinary School of Alfort, during the Scholastic Year 
1845 - 46 . 
Clinical Chair. 
Professor . . . . M. H. Boulet. 
Chef de Service, M. Prudhomme. 
The study of domestic animal medicine acquires an import- 
ance better appreciated every day in an age like ours, when the 
attention of all the esprits in France, attracted by agriculture, 
is actively busied about every thing comprehended within its vast 
domain. 
The world, in days gone by, strangers to affairs of a veterinary- 
nature, or little heedful of them, has come at last to take an interest 
in them ; and, seeing the amount of wealth represented by our ani- 
mals, begins likewise to take an interest in the maladies under 
which they labour, and which, by propagation, inflict such heavy 
strokes on the public weal, at the same time that the health of man 
himself is liable to become compromised. 
