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students, will undertake the duties of the sub-curator of the Mu- 
seum, and the Assistant Demonstrator. 
On the evening of the following day, Mr. Morton, the recognized 
Lecturer on Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the Royal Veteri- 
nary College, will commence his labours, of the value of which, 
the ardour with which he pursues every object connected with the 
improvement of veterinary science, and the “Manual of Pharmacy,” 
with which he has favoured the profession, are sufficient pledges. 
If aught more were needed, the Theatres of King’s College, 
Thomas’s, Guy’s, and Bartholomew’s, are free to the veterinary 
pupil. This is honourable to the Professors, and demands the gra- 
titude of the student ; but he will now probably find within the 
walls of his own College all that can be necessary for him in the 
successful pursuit of his practice : he will not, therefore, spend any 
considerable period of his short residence in the metropolis in wan- 
dering far away in order to attend on lectures highly valuable in 
themselves, and indispensable to the student of human medicine, 
but a small portion only of which can concern him. 
Several students of the last year’s class have asked us whether 
the law which requires a residence of eighteen months at the Vete- 
rinary College will be enforced with regard to those who were 
pupils prior to the late alterations. We cannot give any reply 
from absolute authority, but we believe that the case will stand 
thus : — The law will not be made absolutely retrospective. The 
pupil who entered at the College when a twelvemonth’s residence 
only was required will be permitted to present himself for exa- 
mination at the expiration of that period, if his residence has been 
continuous; but, otherwise, an attendance for a period of time 
sufficient to complete the twelvemonth will be demanded. 
To a medical pupil at Worcester, to whom an earlier reply 
ought to have been given, and who asks us “ What is requisite 
for passing the Royal Veterinary College 1” we can only say, 
“ Eighteen months’ pupillage at the College ; and the harder and 
honester the work, and the more assiduous the endeavour to be- 
come au fait at the management of the horse and cattle, and the 
performance of many a little manipulation about them, the better 
the chance of ultimate success.” 
Y. 
