AND HIS PUPILS. 
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the examiners, and, what is of a thousand times greater conse¬ 
quence, appear not before your employers and the public, until 
you have attained that knowledge of things around you, and of 
nature generally, which is indispensable to the scientific—we will 
say more, the honest—discharge of your duty ; which will enable 
you to take your part in that better kind of conversation in which 
those around you will sometimes be engaged; and which, how¬ 
ever offhandedness and impudence may enable you for awhile 
to go on and to deceive, will alone save you from ultimate dis¬ 
covery and disgrace.” 
The Professor urges his pupils to attend on the lectures of 
Mr. Morton; and so, if we had any inufluence, should we; for 
he was educated a chemist; he is capable of imparting much 
valuable instruction, and we believe that his heart is in his lec¬ 
tures : but still we must turn upon this father of his school, and 
ask him, Whether it is quite right and proper for him to compel 
his children to pay for that out of their own private hoard which 
he is, by the law of the school, compelled to teach them himself, 
or by a salaried deputy ? 
We take down a little book from our shelves, published by 
authority, “ An Account of the Veterinary College, from its in¬ 
stitution in 1791,” and there we see (under the article “ Regu¬ 
lations,” and the section of that article, u The Distribution of 
the Studies”) the following plan arranged. It thus begins : 
“ Although the particular distribution of the studies shall be re¬ 
ferred to the judgment of the Professor, yet the general order of 
them shall be nearly as follows :—Zootomy,—the exterior know¬ 
ledge of the Horse—-Operations—the practice of Operations; 
and then, a certain period of time being devoted to each of the 
three first, the fourth shall employ them the mornings only. 
In the evenings they shall be instructed in the Materia 
Medica.” 
Next it is said, “ The pupils shall attend a course of Phar¬ 
macy, to obtain a knowledge of the different preparations. They 
shall divide their mornings between the dispensary and labora¬ 
tory. A knowledge of the common plants and herbs being 
necessary to the veterinary physician, the pupils shall attend a 
course of Botany relative to veterinary medicine. This course 
shall take place in the afternoon.” 
Here, then, we say, we must turn upon the Professor, and ask 
him, Is it quite right, is it quite father-like, to cheat his pupil- 
children out of what is legally their due ? It is as plain as A, B, 
C, that the students were to be taught chemistry, pharmacy, and 
botany; that they were to be taught these at the Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, and that instruction in these was included in, was paid for 
by, the initiatory fee: therefore we say, that the Professor has no 
