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is a breeding country, and that my practice on cattle abundantly 
supplies all my little wants.” 
The readers of The VETEiiiNARrAN may readily suppose how 
truly and how much we exulted in the public admission of that for 
which we had been contending, and seemingly without effect, for 
many a year. At length the veterinary art is to be studied and 
practised in all its branches; and our oldest veterinary school is to 
be what it was designed to be, and no longer the only one in Eu¬ 
rope in which a most important part of veterinary tuition is sys¬ 
tematically excluded. The student is henceforward to extend his 
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inquiries to the anatomy and treatment of the diseases of cattle, 
and other domesticated animals :—but then comes the question, 
how shall they make these inquiries, or gain this requisite instruc¬ 
tion ?—how shall they learn unless some one instruct them ?—and 
how shall any one instruct them who does not know something 
about his subject?—and how shall he, how can he know any 
thing about it, without practice ?—and how shall he practise when 
in the course of forty years he has not had so many patients ? 
These are questions which we shall leave to those whom it con¬ 
cerns to answer. The chairman of the examiners’ board has 
warned the students that their attention should be directed to a 
new object—a new one at the Veterinary College. He will, 
doubtless, be consistent, and remember this occasionally in his 
examinations; and, above all, he will not render himself charge¬ 
able with the mockery of pointing out a line of study without 
giving them the means to pursue it. 
Another new feature, and likewise an important and a most 
pleasing one, occurred in the address of Mr. Coleman to the 
pupils. He spoke, at considerable length, and with much 
energy and eloquence, on the increasing respectability of the 
veterinary profession. He told them that, by virtue of the 
commission which some of their brethren bore, their rank in 
society was materially changed ; and that, if they were faithful 
to themselves, the new ground which they might occupy would 
be contested by few. He exhorted them to acquire the in¬ 
formation and the feelings and habits which might qualify 
them for that walk of life. He warned them against low asso¬ 
ciates, and low and degrading conduct; he impressed on them 
