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PROFESSOR DICK. 
veterinary science ; each a worthy associate of the Agricultural 
Society with which its locality has allied it, and each identi- 
fied with the best interests of their common country. There is room 
for both. There is sufficient extent of surface and extent of subject; 
and ill will fare that school which flagrantly neglects its duty, or 
calumniates its rival. 
A pupil of Professor Dick has favoured us with a sketch of the 
concluding portion of his last introductory lecture. It breathes a 
spirit of liberality which we expected from such a man. He had 
been warning his pupils of the value of the little time which they 
had to prepare for the important duties of their profession. He had 
urged them to attend to their anatomical studies — to pay the closest 
attention to the cases the treatment of which they witnessed in 
the infirmary of the college, or in their periodical visits to out-door 
patients with him, or in journies at his direction into the neigh- 
bouring country. He advised them to keep a regular diary of all 
that they saw and thought ; of their own errors, and, perhaps, of 
his, and of their and his success. 
“ They must have a library of reference. It needed not to be 
a large one ; but every practitioner who would do himself justice, 
should have in his possession the sterling works on veterinary sci- 
ence. Among those that were indispensable he would name Perci- 
vall’s “ Anatomy;” and, the “ Lectures” being out of print, his 
“ Hippo-pathology.” The first would prevent him from forgetting 
the very foundation of his profession, while the other, in the most 
simple yet scientific way, taught the general principles of patho- 
logy. By the side of these should stand a work that would never 
be superseded, Blaine’s “ Veterinary Outlines,” and also Blaine’s 
“ Treatise on Dogs :” next to them would be “ The Horse,” “ Cattle,” 
and “ Sheep,” from the pen of Mr. Youatt ; the “ Manual of Phar- 
macy,” by Mr. Morton; Reid’s “Text Book;” and Grant’s or 
Blumenbach’s “ Comparative Anatomy” — both of them, at the 
same time, clear and profound. To these, as connected with the 
daily increasing progress of veterinary science, should be added 
the monthly “ VETERINARIAN.” 
“ Some of his pupils, he believed, were acquainted with the con- 
tinental languages. He would earnestly advise them to procure 
