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matter — and he is hated by half the College members and stu- 
dents. I soon, however, found out the mystery of it all, and 
much sooner told him my mind. 
You are at liberty to do what you please with the above hints. 
Wishing you success in your assiduous and laudable efforts for 
the improvement and diffusion of veterinary science, 
I am, dear Sir, &c. 
P.S. — Having induced a few of my best employers to become 
subscribers to your Journal, I can speak with confidence as to its 
effects. 1 find the more they read the more they see their own 
want of true knowledge, and the quack in his true colours ; and 
instead of prescribing for their stock themselves, they are the first 
to send for my assistance. Certain I am nothing will produce 
more quackery than secresy, for it is its only true nidus. 
From Mr. J. M. Hales, M.R.C.S. et V.S. Oswestry. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
1 have had experience enough of the world to know, that he 
who is fond of meddling in politics, whether general as regards 
the state, or particular as relates to some professional or other 
community, is embarked in a troublesome and often a thankless 
undertaking : yet there are “ tides in the affairs of men,” in 
which heds no patriot either to his country or his calling that 
would shrink from the responsibility of boldly and candidly ex- 
pressing his sentiments ; and such a period appears to me to have 
arrived in our profession, as I gather from the leader in the last 
Veterinari an, from Mr. Hayes’s letter, and from Mr. Morton’s 
speech. 
With regard to the alleged abuses of the Veterinary College, 
which has been a common theme of late, I shall only remark, 
that I am as anxious as any one that that Institution should be 
all we could wish it, and this more especially, having had the 
honour of educating several young men for the veterinary profes- 
sion, and having others whom I hope in due time will become 
members of the College. I have no doubt that improvements may 
be made in the system of College education, and shall be glad to 
know of their being adopted : but it occurs to me as an anomaly, 
that in a publication which many, it appears, deprecate because 
it too extensively makes known to non-professionals the increased 
scientific attainments and respectability of the art, writers should 
wish to spread their opinions of the incompetcncy and careless- 
ness of the professors at the College. If it is bad policy to 
