THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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The horse required little more care than attention to his diet. 
This was very much restricted during four days. On the fifth day 
he began to eat a little hay and oats. 
At this time (February 28), thirty-one days after the operation, 
the wound is rapidly cicatrizing, and the openings which were made 
into the nasal fossae are almost entirely closed. 
THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1839. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
Most of our readers are doubtless aware of the decease of Pro- 
fessor Coleman. That gentleman departed this life on the evening 
of Sunday the 14th July. 
The biography of a man who for nearly half a century presided 
over the Veterinary College of England, and whose influence, 
directly or indirectly, gave a tone and character to all its proceed- 
ing, is sacred property among us ; and in due time — at no distant 
time — we will endeavour to discharge our duty. All remembrance 
of alienation or of injury — all records of “ pressures past,” shall 
“ from the table of our memory” be wiped away ; and the desire 
faithfully and truly to chronicle the early history of our profession, 
“ shall live within the book and volume of our brain.” 
We earnestly entreat those who were spectators or actors in 
scenes of from thirty to fifty years ago, to favour us with facts and 
anecdotes and personal observations which may assist us in our 
labour. Their communications shall be sacred, and they shall not 
be abused. To whichever of the Editors of The VETERINARIAN 
the task may fall, the writer of the present article promises thus 
far. 
In consequence of this event, a meeting of the governors and 
subscribers was summoned for the 30th of July. Our readers 
cannot possibly, through our ordinary means, be put in possession 
of the result of this meeting until our next number ; but we will 
endeavour that an abstract of the proceedings shall appear in the 
Mark Lane Express of the 5th of August. Of two things, how- 
