38 ABUSES AT THE ENGLISH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
situation of lecturing on the diseases of the horse and all domesti- 
cated animals. The best informed person would have enough, 
and more than enough, to do with either of them. The present 
Professor, however, is not, in strictness, fit for either ; and I am 
confident that there are those in the profession far more competent 
to occupy his chair, and more likely to improve the veterinary pro- 
fession, and to raise the College in public estimation. He appears 
to me to be one who does not keep pace with the increasing know- 
ledge and reforming disposition of the age. 
I regard the Veterinary College and the education therein af- 
forded as a national disgrace. Look, I say, at the present state 
of it, with only a professor, assistant professor, lecturer on che- 
mistry, and a demonstrator! The first totally unfit for his situation, 
as connected with cattle pathology. As to the lecturer on chemistry 
(Mr. Morton), he only received his appointment about eleven months 
ago, so that during a space of nearly half a century there was no 
appointed lecturer; and yet the students were examined on that 
which they could not learn, and then most imperfectly, without a 
fearful sacrifice of time in attendance on schools where chemistry 
and the materia medica were taught with reference to the human 
being alone. Even now that Mr. Morton’s appointment has taken 
place, he is compelled to hold the situation of secretary, or clerk — 
as he is contumeliously designated by his superiors — in order to 
enable him to live. Shame on such a College and such Governors 
to have it so! 
Is it likely, however talented and industrious he may be, that 
he can always come before his class prepared in the way he could 
wish, when his time, which ought to have been spent in the study 
or the laboratory, is occupied in the daily routine and drudgery of 
the office of the College f I most positively assert and believe, that 
no man — not even Mr. Morton himself — can keep pace with the 
discoveries and comprehensiveness of “ that beautiful science 
chemistry,” and bring forward the different facts and experiments 
in the way he could wish or ought to do, without his whole time 
being devoted to the subject. I really think it infamous that the 
only Veterinary College in London or in England will not afford 
or have a lecturer on chemistry to a class of from 80 to 100 stu- 
dents, without his being obliged to unite it with an inferior oc- 
cupation, in order to live and to appear as he would wish to do 
in such a school, there being, at the same time, plenty of funds for 
that purpose, if not swallowed up by another; or, if there were 
not, that sum being easily obtained by an increase of the poor 
beggarly initiatory fee. 
As to the Demonstrator, I fearlessly assert that he is not qualified 
for the situation which he now occupies ; yet 1 do not wish to 
