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THE NAVICULAR BONE, 
almost every student. The importance of general and pharma¬ 
ceutical chemistry is now acknowledged at the College; and the 
students are warned that their proficiency in or neglect of this 
study will materially influence the result of their examination. 
All this is right; and Mr. Morton is capable of giving, and 
will give, them the requisite instruction. If, however, he would 
in these lectures give a synopsis, at least, of agricultural che¬ 
mistry, he would add much to their value; for, in the language 
of Sir Astley Cooper at the dinner of 1833, and which we shall 
not readily forget, “ If there is any branch of science which 
more than another concerns the veterinary student,it is chemistry; 
and particularly that division of it which has relation to the soil, 
and its improvement, and its produce, and renders him useful to, 
and in a manner identified with, those among whom he will have 
to live.” 
We now take leave of our readers until the commencement of 
another year, thanking them for the support which we have 
hitherto experienced, and which we will endeavour not to forfeit, 
—-- Y. 
An agriculturist is informed that there is not any systematic 
work on the veterinary materia medica, but he will find a suffi¬ 
ciently compendious pharmacopeia, so far as it regards the horse, 
in Blaine’s Veterinary Outlines; and for both “ The Horse” and 
“ Cattle,” in two volumes bearing these titles, and published by 
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian .” 
Messieurs Editors, 
If you think the subscribed amendment will be received with 
the spontaneous good humour in which it is suggested, secure it 
an innocent corner amongst your most valuable communications. 
THE NAVICULAR BONE. 
This small bone of the horse’s foot receives its name from the 
Latin word “navicula,” given to it by anatomists from its fanci¬ 
ful resemblance to a little boat. I propose to change the term, 
and call it “ cymba,” which is only another Latin w T ord for the 
same thing; but then we shall have with it a Cymbad (mutata 
literd )—the professor — who, like the sailor in the Arabian 
Tales, may always be seen in his little boat, the navicular bone, 
cruizing about in quest of discoveries upon the coasts of veteri¬ 
nary science. 
Vekbi Mutator. 
Nov. 17,1834. 
