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crowded class of students ; and proud I am to add, of several 
of the most eminent practitioners of this metropolis : and further, 
I can, if required, give the names of several veterinary surgeons 
who also heard it read out of its turn to the same society, a few 
weeks before*. 
I appeal to the candour of the veterinary profession as a body, 
whether this was not the channel through which they became 
acquainted with the merits of side-nailing. 
Did it not, at that juncture, create a great sensation at head 
quarters — I mean the Royal Veterinary College of London? 
You well know, Messrs. Editeurs, the manner and kind of 
notice it received publicly, for the first time , at this National 
Institution from the lips of the two Professors. 
If your readers will but kindly excuse the intrusion of th s 
dry controversy, I promise again to appear very soon in the 
pages of your indispensable Journal ; and I hope more profitably 
to your readers, upon “ the incalculable benefit derivable from 
leather soles in conjunction with side-nailing” 
My experience has of late impressed me with a belief, that 
their co-operation (supposing the execution perfect from the 
•hands of an able artisan), to constitute the acme of the art of 
horse shoeing. 
THE VETERINARIAN , OCTOBER 1 , 1836 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
We have great pleasure in stating, that a meeting of those 
who are friendly to the establishment of the Veterinary 
Medical Association (so it is now to be called), w*as held at 
the Freemasons’ Tavern, on Monday, the 12th ult. 
Mr. Sewell was unanimously called to the chair, and Mr. Morton 
requested to act as Secretary. The chairman briefly adverted to 
the circumstances which had led to the resignation of the officers 
of another society, and the expulsion of that society from the 
Veterinary College. He presumed not to impugn the motives 
* Mr. Turner is perfectly correct in all these particulars.— W. Y. 
