APPOINTMENT OF A VETERINARY PROFESSOR AT 
THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. 
Mr. Castley, in his interesting account of the Edinburgh Ve¬ 
terinary School in our number for June, page 305, remarks, that 
<< Our art seems to sink beneath the dignity of collegiate science: 
that there is no room for Mr. Dick s chair within the walls of the 
great, the proud University of Edinburgh. The elder sister ap¬ 
pears to disown the relationship, or, secretly ashamed of the 
Cinderella, scarcely acknowledges the connexion.” 
We have great pleasure in observing that it is not so in every 
university north of the Tweed. The Glasgow Courier of Sep¬ 
tember the 22d, in its account of the meeting of the Trustees of 
the University in that city, gives the following paragraph:— 
“ Mr. Cheetham was thereafter unanimously elected Professor 
of Veterinary Surgery.” If our art in the south “ falls so far 
short of the estimate we formed of it when we first embarked in 
it,” it is gratifying to observe that in one university, at least, in 
the north, its importance is recognised. When we consider the 
number and value of the patients of the veterinary surgeon, and 
reflect that every gentleman, and every tradesman possessed of 
competency, will, at some period of his life, spend a portion of 
his time in the country, and be possessed of some of these ani¬ 
mals, and how pleasant and advantageous to him it will be to 
have some idea of their nature and structure, and value and 
general treatment, we are surprised that this has not formed a 
portion of the system of general education: and sure we are 
that the important elucidations of physiology and pathology, 
which must necessarily result from the variations of func tion and 
the variations of disease, and the varied treatment of disease in 
so many animals as those which are included under the name of 
domestic, and the light which must be reflected on medical 
science, ought to give, and will ere long give, the veterinary 
surgeon a chair in every medical school. We trust that the sister 
universities in the north, and that those also south of the Tw eed, 
w ill not be slow in following* this laudable example. It will be a 
happy aera for our profession when its importance is thus acknow¬ 
ledged, and its respectability thus vindicated. Our old sc hool must 
then reform; the educated and competent practitioner will drive 
the illiterate and incompetent one out of the field, and the three- 
month's groom and mechanic will no more be heard of.— Editors. 
