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CTommunications; anlH ^a^e^. 
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A VETERINARY NOMENCLATURE. 
Mr. Editor ; 
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THE 12th Section of your Synopsis having for its head 
'^Transactions at or relative to the Veterinary College at St. 
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Pancras/’ and having been a Student at that Institution, and 
still retaining an attachment to the Profession, yet in its in¬ 
fancy ; whether to the disgrace of one or many I cannot say; 
nevertheless, knowing full well the obstacles which present 
themselves at that establishment, and feeling assured by set¬ 
ting them aside we shall be more likely to attain that which is 
the ardent desire of every Veterinarian, I shall feel obliged by 
your inserting the following query. J5y whose nomenclature is 
the Veterinary Student to be guided in his dissections 1 There are, 
as you know, several authors who have given their respective 
ones, but not one has yet been vested with authority; that is to 
say, has been sanctioned by the heads at the Veterinary Col¬ 
lege : nor has one issued from thence. Whether this latter 
arise from incompetency or laziness I know not; but I do not 
hesitate to say the cause of the former is jealousy. That after 
an existence of an institution of that kind for upwards of thirty 
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years, no one is found able or willing to produce so important 
an auxiliary to the well-being of this profession is surely a cry¬ 
ing sin. It is an axiom that anatomy is the basis of all phy¬ 
siological and pathological knowledge; but how is the former 
to be acquired without some fixed laws laid down to direct and 
govern the inquiring mind? (It must be remembered I am 
now speaking in reference to students.) And without a know¬ 
ledge of the former a correct and happy knowledge of the latter 
two cannot be gained. 
I scarcely need, Mr. Editor, to express to you what advan¬ 
tages must attend the possession of an acknowledged and re- 
