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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1839. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Many of our readers, through the medium of the Mark Lane 
Express, have been made acquainted with the proceedings of the 
Governors of the Royal Veterinary College since our last report: 
but as that paper may not have reached all our subscribers, and as 
it seems advisable that our Periodical, for the satisfaction of the 
present generation and the information of posterity, should con- 
tain a detailed account of all the circumstances connected with the 
changes which have been effected in that Institution, we will re- 
peat the substance of what took place on the 30th of last July. 
Mr. Sewell was appointed chief Professor and Director of the 
Institution, and Superintendent of the Clinical Department of the 
Hospital. His lectures are not to be confined, like those of the 
late Professor, to the horse, but are to embrace the medical and 
surgical treatment of every domesticated animal. 
Mr. Spooner is the Assistant Professor, and joint Superintendent 
of the Clinical Department, and his lectures will comprise the ana- 
tomy and physiology of all domesticated animals. 
To these noble improvements is added a third. Mr. Morton, to 
whose ardent zeal and full competency every student and every 
practitioner will bear eager testimony, is appointed Lecturer on 
Veterinary Pharmacy and the Materia Medica. 
The time of the student’s residence at the College is extended 
to eighteen months, and the regularity of that attendance will be 
strictly enforced. 
The candidate for examination must be at least twenty years of 
age when he presents himself at the examiners’ board. 
The initiatory fee is twenty guineas, which will give to every 
pupil a right of admission to all the regular and public lectures of 
the Institution. 
We have received several communications from our friends in 
the country. Almost all of them express much pleasure and 
thankfulness in the contemplation of some of the evident and va- 
