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A VETERINARY NOMENCLATURE. 
ceived manual of anatomy, not only to the student but to the 
professional man. I will elucidate by a supposition. If a pupil 
in his dissections follow the nomenclature as by Mr. Coleman 
made use of in his invaluable lectures (from whom, assuredly, 
either directly or indirectly—that is from his Demonstrator— 
should come the Student^s Manual; from his Demonstrator did 
I say ? Who is he ? Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you will be kind 
enough to make the inquiry, for of a truth I know the Pupils 
at the College would be glad to see him at his post: but more 
of this at some future time;) if another make use of the terms 
employed by Mr. Blaine, and a third those of Mr. Percival 
in his elegant publications—(which, for aught I see, might with 
a few emendations be rendered unobjectionable and adequate 
to the desired end) if, I say, from these different sources differ- 
ent Pupils acquire their knowledge of the names of the various 
parts of the animal, what confusion and altercation must inevit- 
ably follow when either attempts to give a description of the 
body! And what, Mr. Editor, is the fact? Are any efforts 
made or making to obtain this desideratum ? I will not an¬ 
swer positively in the negative, but state a truth and leave you 
to draw your conclusions. The Professor every successive year 
since the publication of Mr. PercivaUs Lectures has been 
(as I am informed) drawing nearer and nearer to the names as 
made use of by him. Now surely it would be more to the cre¬ 
dit of Professor Coleman were he at once to acknowledge the 
merit of Mr. Percivafs nomenclature, or if there be errors 
to point them out; yea, even to the author himself, who I have 
no doubt would, provided he saw as Mr. Coleman did, the 
necessity of alteration, change such terms as are objectionable. 
Such however unfortunately is not the case: and what have we 
to complete the jumble? Why, I am most creditably informed, 
that the Assistant Professor is now busily engaged—that is to 
say, as much engaged about this as his numerous other avoca¬ 
tions will allow him—in copying names from the French of 
Girard. Perhaps, by and by, we shall get them in broad 
Dutch I for where and when this business will end I know not. 
