81G COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION 1839-40 
agriculturists of the present day, should be well acquainted with 
the maladies of cattle. Located in the country, the practice on 
the horse will no longer afford him sufficient emolument for the 
support of his family. He must be able to attend to the ox as 
well as the horse, or the farrier will beat him on his own ground. 
“ To the students I would say, that I trust their conduct will en- 
title them to the respect and friendship of their teachers, and pre- 
pare them for an honourable discharge of their duties in after-life. 
It will be the earnest endeavour of myself and the Assistant Pro- 
fessor to communicate to them that information which will prepare 
them for the skilful and honourable discharge of their professional 
duties. A lecture will be delivered daily in this theatre at twelve 
o’clock, by myself and the Assistant Professor, alternately. The 
Demonstrator will be found in the dissecting-room ; and the valu- 
able lectures on chemistry by Mr. Morton will, I have no doubt, 
be shortly resumed.” 
This introductory lecture of the new Professor is altogether void 
of presumption, and there is no censurable expression of bad feel- 
ing towards those whom he well knows are hostile to him. He 
candidly states, that “ his situation is different from that of his 
predecessor, for the instruction of the pupil would now extend to 
other domesticated animals beside the horse.” He adds, that “ pre- 
paration has been made for the receiving of them as patients ; and 
he trusted that, in process of time, all the arrangements would be 
completed, and become alike advantageous to the Institution, the 
pupil, and the agricultural body.” 
We have no right to doubt that this will not be honourably at- 
tempted to be accomplished, although we confess that we should 
have liked to have been let a little into the secret of the means 
by which these noble objects are to be fully worked out. We 
should have been pleased to have had the opportunity of judging 
whether the course intended to be pursued will or can lead to the 
accomplishment of this purpose, so devoutly to be wished; and by 
what means all the united talent and labour indispensable to their 
accomplishment will be furnished and secured. 
The new Professor must deeply feel that the eyes of the pro- 
fession are upon him ; and he will be anxious to fulfil, to the very 
letter, the wishes of the governors, the united body of agriculturists, 
the profession, the students, and, in fact, of every man of common 
sense and right feeling. 
