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difficult it must be, or in fact that it must be utterly impossible, for 
the Professor, amid the multiplicity of claimants, at all times to se¬ 
lect the deserving. We have no right to censure him if occasionally 
he should be imposed upon by a specious appearance and false 
pretensions: but it is a proper question for discussion, has he 
been always so careful in the selection of army veterinarians as 
he might have been ? Has he uniformly remembered his own 
assertion, that the bestowal of this commission “has induced 
many medical students of liberal education to devote their sen- 
vices to its improvement 1” or has he wilfully and systematically 
thrown obstacles in the way of men of liberal education and 
medical students, and even objected to them at head quarters 
because they were medical students , and men of liberal education? 
These are questions of grave importance. We should most 
unwillingly believe, indeed, in the language of Mr. Brown, 
“ a contemplative mind can scarcely conceive, that our w orthy 
Professor makes some arrangement with his pupils, previous to 
their entering the Veterinary College, respecting an army ap¬ 
pointment, merely for twenty guineas, and by such means encou¬ 
rages men of low birth and education, in order to deter others of 
more exalted fortunes from becoming members of the veterinary 
professionbut it is a question deserving of strict enquiry, how 
far something’ bearing, at least, the appearance of this has occurred, 
in which medical students and men of liberal education have 
been excluded, and others of no superior veterinary qualifications 
and of far inferior general attainments been appointed; and how 
far hereby that “art 11 which his majesty had “ raised to respect¬ 
ability 11 has been sunk into utter “contempt." And then comes 
another question, laying all prejudice and interest aside, how r far 
the late system of college education, open to even every one, 
completed in a shamefully inadequate period of time, and at an 
expense which every groom and menial can readily meet, has 
necessarily forced into the service many with whom the officers 
could not associate, and by w hom the profession was disgraced. 
The injury which “ the veterinary appointment in the cavalry'’ 
has sustained by the late regulations, is another important sub¬ 
ject of consideration. Its extent, its cause, the means by which 
