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a letter of introduction to Mr. Bowling, I was kindly conducted 
through the building, and was truly delighted at the regularity with 
which every department appeared to be conducted. The accom- 
modation for the pupils was most complete. Independent of the 
spacious school-room, I found many of the pupils engaged in study 
in small apartments. I felt amply rewarded for the trouble and 
expense of my journey, when I beheld what ample means for the 
instruction and comfort of the students were provided. 
I am quite aware that the accommodation at the St. Pancras 
School could not be brought into anything like the state of perfec- 
tion of the one I have alluded to, nor do I think it necessary ; still, 
much might and ought to be done for the better instruction, greater 
comfort, and encouragement of the students. And I most earnestly 
hope that the governors of the -V eterinary College will see that the 
best way of supporting their Institution will be by studying a little 
more the interests of those young men who enter there with the 
expectation of being sent out as useful and competent persons. 
If they would afford that personal inspection so requisite in all 
institutions, a great change, I feel, would soon ensue ; but unless 
this be done, their College must sink into insignificance ; and 
should it be found necessary to establish another, as has been 
hinted at, downfall of Ihe old one must be the inevitable conse- 
quence. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
To the Editor of“ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — HAVING unintentionally allowed the last month’s publica- 
tion of The Veterinarian to pass without replying to a letter 
subscribed “ An Admirer of Progression in the Veterinary Art,” 
which appeared on the 1st January, in answer to mine of the pre- 
ceding month, on the subject of education of veterinary students, 
and conceiving that some parts of the same call for a reply, inasmuch 
as I appear to have been misunderstood, I ask permission for the 
few following lines to obtain a place in your Journal. 
With the writer of that letter, in most of his observations, I per- 
fectly agree, and therefore feel surprised that he could have so 
wrongly misinterpreted me as to have supposed that I considered 
it a disgrace to a man practising the veterinary profession “ to 
put on a leathern apron and examine a foot as to lameness on the 
contrary, I agree with him, and say it is a credit to such a man. 
