VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
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sows in the ranks of our brethren by a concurrence which they 
cannot, dare not, sustain with the means at the empiric’s disposal ; 
the disgust, in fact, experienced by the man conscious of his own 
art from the similarity which opinion, in a certain direction, has 
established between him and his fortunate rival ; all these are 
causes which neutralize, annihilate even, the benefit derivable from 
the veterinary profession supposing they had the management of 
the hygiene , of the conservation and treatment of cattle. 
A law guaranteeing to him these functions would at once be a 
moral one, seeing that it would protect the farmer against the prac- 
tices, for the most part fraudulent, of the pretender in whom he, is 
in the habit of placing confidence ; — would prove of sterling utility 
to him, since it would confer that safeguard on his property which 
it so much needs; at the same time be in harmony with the esprit 
of our institutions, as well as in accordance with the general ten- 
dencies of our age of improvement. 
Our Government are well persuaded of all this; let us hope 
that they will impress the legislative chambers with their senti- 
ments ; so that our profession may be enabled, unshackled, under 
the protection of the law, *to fulfil their modest and useful mission. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals, 
THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF DOGS. 
Continued from p. 515. 
[From the North British Review, No xiii.] 
Of the eastern or southern dogs of the Old World, several 
varieties are assuredly derived from jackals, or from certain ani- 
mals commonly classed with these, such as the Thoan group, which 
includes the Deeh, or wild dog of Egypt ( Canis Anthus), the Thous 
of Nubia, the Zenlee of the Hottentots, the Tulki of the Persians, 
and the great jackal, or wild dog of Natolia — Thous acmon. All 
these more or less resemble wolves on a small scale, being inter- 
mediate in size between them and the true jackals. They do not 
burrow like the latter, are not gregarious, consequently do not 
howl in concert as the jackals do, and have little or no offensive 
odour. Many eastern domesticated dogs bear a close resemblance 
to one or other of these species. Professor Kretschmer is of 
opinion that the Egyptians obtained their domestic breed from the 
