52 the editors’ address to their readers. 
The veterinary periodicals, so far as their aim and object is 
honestly the advancement of science, and the reformation, not the 
destruction, of our national school, are, likewise, exerting no little 
influence on the public mind,—an influence rapidly increasing, 
and which cannot ultimately be opposed. 
In addition to all these circumstances, the veterinary surgeons 
of the next generation will be essentially different in merit and in 
reputation from many who have been most unjustifiably admitted 
among us. A longer residence at the seat of instruction will now 
be required from every pupil. We much regret that Mr. Coleman 
should, in the agitation and nervousness of an introductory lecture, 
have omitted to state this to his class. The pupil should have 
been honestly apprised of what he had to expect. The public, 
however, has not forgotten, nor have we forgotten, that Mr. Cole¬ 
man has distinctly announced, that no student, admitted after the 
summer of 1829, will be permitted to apply for his diploma until 
he has resided at least a twelvemonth at the Veterinary College. 
The profession will demand that that which has been publicly 
announced, and which is so just, shall be strictly enforced. 
How could the medical examiners so long reconcile it to them¬ 
selves to admit among us these three or four months’ men ? Would 
they not have felt themselves insulted and degraded had such per¬ 
sons been foisted upon them ? 
These things must work their way; and, in the mean time, we 
are willing to remain silent but not uninterested spectators. We 
wish for peace among all parties—among the profession generally; 
and we will more than meet every overture which has for its 
object the accomplishment of the purposes for which we have 
contended : but we and the public are no longer to be cajoled and 
duped; and if we are forced again into the field, we shall be 
ready and determined to strike with surer aim at the root and 
source of all the evil. 
So far as our friends will afford us room, we shall review or 
analyse not only every new work immediately connected with 
veterinary science, but those which have a more distant but im¬ 
portant relation to it. Our domestic and foreign journals, medi¬ 
cal and scientific, will be laid under contribution; and from eveiy 
source we shall endeavour to glean a little, occasionally to amuse, 
