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PROFESSOR COLEMAN 
ner, that but few are present, or rather are not aware of it; and 
you, gentlemen, know that there are many thus destroyed or 
smuggled over which would be of particular moment and interest 
to each of us. I have known many of the pupils waiting for 
hours to know when the operations were to be performed, and 
thus idling away considerable time which might have been ad¬ 
vantageously employed in that particular branch which our 
worthy Professor has here so strenuously endeavoured to induce 
us to study. I shall here close these imperfect but important 
remarks,—important as it regards our professional well-being,— 
hoping that my letter may have some beneficial effect, and that 
each will join hand-in-hand in advancing the cause of veterinary 
science. 
“ Royal Veterinary College, &TUDENS. 
July 18, 1834/ 
We readily insert this letter. The expressions of paternal 
attachment to his class by a professor of more than forty years' 
standing, and the honest return of respect, and gratitude, and 
affection from the pupils,—these are scenes in which one delights 
to mingle; they are a few of those redeeming hours which more 
than repay us for the dissatisfaction and disgust with which we 
sometimes contemplate the events that take place around us. 
Let us not break, but give perpetuity to the charm. 
The Professor of the Veterinary College tells his pupils that he 
u half regards them as his children." These are words that will 
not be soon erased from the memory. He, the companion of 
those who occupy the first ranks of science and public estimation, 
speaks of his children, too, mingling with “ gentlemen of educa¬ 
tion," and warns them not to permit the discovery of their igno¬ 
rance to “ lower them in the estimation" of such men ; and he 
calls upon them “ to disclaim the low notions , and habits , and 
companions of the common farrier! !” Never let this exhortation 
be forgotten by those to whom it was addressed; never let it be 
forgotten by the Professor himself, when the excitation which 
gave rise to it shall have subsided. Never more let the youth 
whose honest glowing emulation had received fresh impulse from 
the liberal studies he had pursued, be astounded, paralyzed, 
every energy depressed, destroyed, by the icy, withering, deadly 
influence of an introductory lecture. 
The professional father of his class exhorts his children to give 
far more attention to chemistry than they had hitherto done; 
stating how essentially it was connected with the knowledge and 
practice of their art, and, in its various bearings and ramifica¬ 
tions, with their acceptance among their employers, and among 
gentleman of education;"—and so say we: and, had we any 
influence over the pupils, we would say, too., “Appear not before 
