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THE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES. 
the spring, he may, at least, attempt a short course of lectures on a 
subject almost equally interesting to the student in veterinary and 
human medicine,—rabies in the domestic quadrupeds. 
On the 14th of November, the new theatre of the Edinburgh 
school was crowded with pupils. The appearance then exhibited 
must have been gratifying to the talented, and industrious, and 
highly deserving Professor of that institution. <c A casual at¬ 
tendant’’ expressed much surprise that, in a history of the pro¬ 
gress of the veterinary art, and an enumeration of the veterinary 
schools, given in a late introductory lecture in another place, no 
mention was made of that institution which, at the solicitation 
and under the patronage of the Highland Society of Scotland, 
was founded by Mr. Dick. 
We would fain attribute this to inadvertence, or to the nervousness 
which every lecturer experiences when he appears before his class 
at the commencement of a new r session—to any thing rather than 
design. Mr. Sewell knew full well that the Clyde Street school 
did exist, and w 7 as progressing; and that it was—what every veteri¬ 
nary school ought to be—not merely devoted to the cavalry service 
and the pleasures and sports of the higher classes of society, and, 
to a certain extent, the facility and advancement of commerce, 
yet, in a very insufficient degree, connected with the wants 
and welfare of the farmer; but that it was identified wfith the 
agricultural interests of the country, and had become a part 
and portion of them. Mr. Dick is Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Grand Agricultural (the Highland) Society of Scotland; he 
attends, ex officio, their principal meetings; his counsel is 
sought and has its weight in many of their proceedings. In 
the lesser agricultural societies of Scotland his pupils occupy 
a similar situation ; and there is scarcely a farmer’s club 
that has not its efficient veterinary surgeon. Shall we reverse 
the picture ? There is no agricultural society in England that has 
a veterinary surgeon professionally attached to it; no one that 
courts the aid of such an officer, or would listen with common 
patience to him, or be swayed by his opinion on a purely Agricul¬ 
tural subject. We are not drawing invidious general compari¬ 
sons; but here is one good point, and whatever inferiority in other 
respects may attend the Edinburgh school, it w r as entitled to some 
brief and passing mention in a professed list of veterinary insti¬ 
tutions. 
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We can even less easily account for the omission of the Abou- 
