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who, having worn out the funds of one society, are now desirous 
of instituting another ; and kindly intimate (not in the best of 
English, certainly, but in terms which may be well enough 
understood), that Mr. Morton is ready to receive a guinea, or 
any thing worth having, from any person gullible enough to part 
with it.” 
Now, what is this but an accusation against those gentlemen bv 
a knot of disaffected students, and in league with an inferior 
officer of the establishment, which, if true, would go far to consti- 
tute a felony, and subject them to the penalties of the law? 
True, the letter is not signed, nor is there even a printer’s name 
affixed to it ! — A compound of cunning and of cowardice ! ! 
I have a right to assume that the anonymous calumny comes 
from the same party from which similar compositions proceeded 
in the last session. And who is one of the persons thus ac- 
cused ? — the Assistant-professor at the Veterinary College — he 
whose character and whose labours ought to command the respect 
and not the detestation of its pupils. 
In addition to this, I state it advisedly, the dissecting-room 
of the Veterinary College is not exclusively devoted to the pur- 
poses for which it was designed ; but too much time, and almost 
daily, is employed in maligning the character and blasting the 
reputation of the officers of the old society — in poisoning the 
mind of the young pupil from the very moment that he enters 
the College, and inducing those habits and that state of feeling 
which are totally inconsistent with the pursuit of honourable 
and useful study. Is Professor Coleman aware of this? Was 
he not plainly told that it was the case in the last session ? Has 
he not seen the deplorable effects of the system ? Are the go- 
vernors aware of this ? Will they permit a line of conduct to 
be pursued towards their superior officers, which equally sets at 
nought truth and common courtesy ? 
In an interview which I had the honour to have with Mr. 
Coleman during the last session, I told him that he had the 
whole affair in his own hands, and that one word of his would at 
the very beginning have settled the whole matter. I tell him so 
again; and as an humble individual of the profession, but speak- 
ing the sentiments of them all, I call upon him in justice to 
his colleague, in justice to the students, peremptorily to inter- 
