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mission, although the same terms were offered. In point of fact, 
as matters are conducted in those establishments, neither the 
Professor, the students, nor any one else, can see any thing de- 
cisive or valuable as to the proper treatment of cattle; nor will 
or can the pupil satisfactorily return to his home to undertake this 
all-important division of the veterinary profession. 
In order to impart to the pupil the requisite knowledge of the 
diseases of cattle, some one must be procured who was bred and 
born among them — who has had the opportunity of studying all 
their diseases — who has diligently availed himself of that oppor- 
tunity, and whose previous education and habits will enable him 
to give to his acquired knowledge that scientific form which a 
course of lectures would require. Such a man alone can be of 
any essential service in accomplishing that grand desideratum 
of the College, the Agricultural Society, and the farmer every- 
where — an improvement in the knowledge of the nature and 
causes and proper treatment of the diseases of cattle, sheep, 
swine, and other domesticated animals. Such a man would 
easily be found, with health, and strength, and an inquiring mind, 
and a love of his profession: and the country would hail with 
one universal acclamation of satisfaction the adoption of such a 
system. 
Y. 
A SUMMARY OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT, 
DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1840-41. 
In the Session that has closed, there have been admitted into 
the hospital 5G9 horses, 2 asses, 8 mules, 4 bulls, 2 goats, and 
294 dogs, total 879 animals. 
Of the 5G9 horses 515 were dismissed cured, or very mate- 
rially relieved, and 54 died in the infirmary, viz. 17 of glanders 
or farcy, 18 of acute diseases, 5 of different chronic affections, 
13 of serious chirurgical diseases, and 1 of tetanus. The pro- 
portion of those that died constituted T Vth of those that were 
subjected to treatment ! 
Of the 294 dogs that were received into the hospital 2G0 were 
discharged quite well — 30 died, and 4 were abandoned from the 
