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Zabel school; for, although this gentleman saj/s that “he never 
reads The\ eterinarian, yet one would have thought that in 
his general reading (we must not say his general mingling with 
veterinary society, for that he does not do) he must have heard 
of the noble devotedness of Hamont, and how, at the very hazard 
of life, he founded the first school in Africa; a school in which 
the honour, the grade in life, the dearest interests of the veteri¬ 
nary surgeon, were sedulously secured. When he predicted the 
speedy establishment of a school in America, and expressed an 
inteiest in its success, it is singular that he could bring himself 
to pass over the Egyptian college in utter silence. 
On the 17th Mr. Coleman delivered his introductory lecture. 
We are happy to say that he has undergone a kind of renova¬ 
tion during his autumnal retirement. For many a year past he 
has not looked so well, or entered with so much spirit into his 
subject. An outline, a mere sketch of that which used to be 
objectionable, remained ; but it is more softened down every year. 
The principal part of his lecture was composed of a rapid survey 
of the foot: he acknowledged it to be “ his hobby,” and certainly 
that hobby has seldom ambled so joyously, and so much to the 
satisfaction of the rider and the spectators. Mr. Coleman an¬ 
nounces that he will lecture on “the general functions and dis¬ 
eases of domestic animals.” lie has not hitherto kept “the 
word of promise” so much as his pupils wished, even “ to the 
eai, ceitainly it was broken to the “hope:” but if he will 
now let his advertisement be, what in common justice it ought 
to be, a faithful annunciation of the course he means to pursue, 
he will deserve and he will receive their thanks. 
On the following evening Mr. Sewell began his course of 
lectures; and if he, too, will make them more consistent with 
his original announcement of them—if he will confine himself to 
the subjects which legitimately belong to his department, instead 
of seeming to make it his aim and business to shew what dis¬ 
cordance of opinion there is on almost every possible point 
between the professor and his assistant, and thus sending 
away the pupils puzzled and dissatisfied, and without any basis 
on which to found scientific and successful practice,—he too will 
act more in accordance with their wishes and their interests, and 
will be legarded as their benefactor and their friend. 
On the succeeding evening Mr. Morton commenced his che¬ 
mical lectures, and his class comprised, as he well deserved, 
