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IMPROVED CASTRATION HOPPLES. 
minutely by writing. Actual observation alone will enable people 
to understand them. Practical men will, I think, understand them 
fully. 
Believe me to be, dear Sir, 
Your’s, faithfully, 
M. Gloag. 
Hounslow, 21st October, 1848. 
*** The Editor — fearing that ambiguity may still exist concern- 
ing an apparatus, which, though not complicated in itself, is of a 
nature that, taking its construction and application together, seems 
to defy due explanation from description alone — is about to have a 
set of the hobbles in question made, which, when complete, shall 
lie open to the inspection of any gentleman who will honour him 
with a call. 
REFUSAL OF PROFESSOR SEWELL TO ADMIT A 
REPORTER FOR THE PRESS TO BE PRESENT 
AT HIS INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Sir, — I WENT to the Royal Veterinary College, Saint Pancras, 
to-day, and was there by half-past eleven o’clock. As I entered 
the gate, I met Professor Spooner, who was coming through a 
number of persons standing there, and looked very hard at me 
as I went to the lecture room, where I found no person yet. 
After I had been there a few minutes, a tall gentleman came in 
and asked me if I belonged to the College. I told him I was a 
member of the press, and attended for the daily papers. He asked 
me if I had the permission of Professor Sewell to attend the Lec- 
ture. I told him I did not consider it necessary. He said he con- 
sidered it necessary before I could remain, as he knew all about it. 
Thinking it advisable to see Mr. Sewell, and make the same repre- 
sentation to him, I accompanied him to Mr. Sewell, and did so. He 
said he had engaged a reporter, who would publish a report of the 
lecture, and he did not, therefore, want it forestalled : I could not, 
consequently, be present. I told him that he was the first Professor 
who had ever refused me, as a representative of the press, to be 
present at a lecture, and that I considered 1 was treated very un- 
gentlemanly : upon which Mr. Sewell said he would consult his Col- 
league, and took me to another part of the College, and ushered 
me into a room, where he left me and went into the passage, where 
