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THE SESSION OF 1839-40. 
sion into the service. So far the aspect of affairs is satisfactory, and 
our profession promises to assume a higher and a juster position. 
The commencement of the ensuing session is at hand with re- 
gard to both schools. Our wrapper announces the 11th of No- 
vember as the day on which the professional labours of the Northern 
School will commence, and we have been told that the introduc- 
tory lecture at the Southern School will be delivered on the 18th of 
the same month. 
The concours of veterinary surgeons from the country will, 
doubtless, be very considerable at both schools. The Northern 
School will now for the first time boast of privileges, the justice 
of which should long ago have been acknowledged. 
Mr. Dick will continue his pathological and anatomical instruc- 
tions. Qualified assistants will be found in the dissecting-room, 
and the theatres of most of the professors in Edinburgh are thrown 
open to the veterinary student. 
In the Southern School there is the first change of professors 
which has taken place for nearly half a century, and also a pro- 
mised return in the instructions of that school to the objects to 
which it was in its infancy pledged, — the medical treatment of all 
domesticated animals. The members of this school will, doubtless, 
flock from every quarter to congratulate the professors and each 
other on these most desirable and important changes, and to ascer- 
tain to what extent they may dare to expect that their long-che- 
rished and ardent hopes are about to be accomplished. How 
much will depend on the events of the first day — “ the great, the 
important day, big with the fate” of the profession to which we 
are devoted ! The congregated members will receive with respect 
and gratitude every pledge of improvement. They will eagerly 
rally round the teachers of the new school, for so, in a very impor- 
tant sense, it must henceforward be considered. They will con- 
stitute a phalanx through which the enemies to the onward pro- 
gress of our art — if such there be — will attempt in vain to 
penetrate. All that they will require will be a heart devoted to 
the cause — sufficient talent and experience and physical power to 
effect the contemplated changes, and the exposition of a plan, 
simple, feasible, and fully embodying that which has so long been 
the object of their ardent wishes. That being granted, it will be 
