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not effect it, the public soon will, and in a way not very pleasant 
to our feelings and our interest. The reform must commence 
with the education of the student. The most important part of 
that education must no longer be systematically, unaccountably, 
abandoned ; and, ere long, by a better division of labour, by a 
more distinct classification of duty, those discrepancies of opinion 
which are not reputable to the masters, but most annoying and 
injurious to the pupils, must cease to be so often obtruded. 
We will return to this subject, unless it should soon employ a 
better pen. Y. 
HriufUn 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.' — H or. 
Bridgewater Treatise.- — Geology and Mineralogy , con - 
sidered with reference to Natural Theology . By the Rev . 
William Buckland, D.D. 
The study of “ Organic Remains” forms a most interesting 
and instructive subject of inquiry to the veterinary student, inas- 
much that it is in them that we find the great master-key, 
whereby we may unlock the secret history of the Earth. They 
are documents which contain the evidences of revolutions and 
catastrophes long antecedent to the creation of the human race ; 
they open the book of Nature, and swell the volumes of science 
with the records of many successive series of animal and vege- 
table generations , of which the creation and extinction would 
have been equally unknown to us, but for the recent discoveries 
in the science of geology. 
Few facts are more remarkable in the history of the progress 
of human discovery, than that it should have been reserved 
almost entirely for the researches of the present generation to 
arrive at any certain knowledge of the existence of the numerous 
extinct races of animals which occupied the surface of our planet 
in ages preceding the creation of man. The rapid progress 
which, during the last half century, has been made in the phy- 
sical sciences, enables us now to enter into the history of fossil 
organic remains in a manner which, till within a very few 
years, would have been quite impracticable. During these years 
the anatomy of extinct species of quadrupeds has been so ex- 
tensively investigated, that our knowledge of the osteology of a 
large number of extinct genera and species now rests on nearly 
the same foundation, and is established with scarcely less cer- 
