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Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Charles Bell, and others of the eminent 
teachers of the Medical Schools, formed, for thirty or forty 
years, the examining board. 
PROPOSAL FOR A VETERINARY SCHOOL IN CANADA. 
We notice an article in the Canadian Agriculturist , from 
the pen of the Hon. A. Ferguson, on veterinary schools. 
The writer urges the farmers of Canada to use both their in- 
fluence and means for the purpose of endowing a veterinary 
school. We cannot doubt that the agriculturists will act on 
this good advice, coming as it does from a gentleman of so 
much influence and power. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE WARRANTY OF HORSES. 
In another part of our Journal will be found a report of a 
“Horse Cause ” — Barratt v. Preece — the decision of which 
has called forth the subjoined communication from Mr. Litt, 
M.R.C.V.S., Shrewsbury. 
To the Editor of Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal . 
Sir, — The decision arrived at in the cause “ Barratt v. 
Preece/ 5 reported in the c Journal 5 of the 3d inst., is one of 
so much importance to a large portion of your readers, many 
of whom are doubtless breeders and rearers of horses, that it 
may not be uninteresting just at present, when our great 
Annual Horse-Fair is approaching, to consider for a short 
time the subject of warranty in the sale of horses, and more 
particularly with regard to its bearing on the interests of the 
breeder, and therefore indirectly on the production of the 
animal itself. In doing this, I will avoid, as far as possible, 
any reference to the late trial, which differed very little in 
any essential particulars from the majority of such cases. I 
believe a great injustice was done to the defendant. But let 
this pass. Such results are so common in horse-causes that 
they need excite no surprise, and it is certainly with no view 
