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place confidence in his veterinary neighbour — the members of 
the profession will again appreciate each others’ worth, and will 
unite in upholding the honour and promoting the welfare of their 
common profession. 
In respect to the veterinary schools: — The Professor of the 
northern school has been unwearied in the discharge of his duty, 
and has lately fulfilled a most important part of it, and which 
no teacher should neglect — he has left to his pupils, and to 
the students of the veterinary art everywhere, a useful book of 
instruction when he is called away. 
With some drawbacks that have reference to the last session, 
the improvement of the southern school has been considerable 
and rapid. If on account of the bereavement which he has un- 
dergone, and which all lament, the lectures of the head Pro- 
fessor have been for awhile suspended, he had in the last session 
been more regular than was always his custom in the delivery of 
his lectures on the pathology and surgical treatment of the horse, 
and had given the promise of a still more earnest discharge of 
the duties of his situation. Of Professor Spooner, we will only 
say that he was always at his post, exerting with his characteristic 
ardour every power that he possessed in promoting the improve- 
ment of the pupil ; and Professor Morton, no longer overwhelmed 
and debased by the duties of “ the office,” was enabled to con- 
centrate all his energies in establishing a new and important 
division of medical chemistry — that which had reference to the 
brute. 
There was, however, another branch of veterinary education, 
and that had been until of late strangely and disgracefully 
omitted — the physiology and pathology of cattle, sheep, and 
other domesticated animals. 
In the closing number of the last series, we stated that “ there 
were three subjects — three cardinal points — that we would never 
abandon,” and the first of them was, “ the introduction at the 
Veterinary College of a competent lecturer on the diseases and 
management of cattle.” 
Has such a person yet been found? The head Professor has 
promised again and again to deliver a competent course of lec- 
tures of this kind. Has the task been accomplished ? We 
