700 IMPROVED STATE OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE.. 
the works of medically educated veterinary surgeons, he will not 
leave us a single publication worth having, a single guide for 
study or practice. 
We quit this ungrateful subject—needlessly forced upon us— 
and on which the opinion of the better part of our profession, 
and of the public, and of Mr. Coleman's private friends, has 
been unequivocally expressed. The picture, we say, was not so 
highly coloured as it was wont to be; and there was that about 
the lecture—a spirit of liberality, and a frequent reference to the 
diseases of all domestic quadrupeds—which gave pleasing indi¬ 
cations of improvement. 
Mr. Coleman has pledged himself to lecture on “ the diseases 
of domestic animals Mr. Sewell has pledged himself to teach 
the u surgical treatment of the horse, the ox, and other domestic 
animals ." They must have prepared themselves for this; and 
the pupils and the public, and the honour of the professors, will 
demand the complete fulfilment of the pledge. This is what we 
have long been contending for; and what the profession will 
rejoice in seeing accomplished. Both the professors now stand 
committed with their pupils and the public. Let them fairly and 
honestly redeem their pledge, and “ the English school will no 
longer stand disgracefully alone amidst the veterinary institutions 
of Europe," and we shall be the willing, the proud instruments 
of conveying to them the thanks of the profession: at the same 
time we shall have the satisfaction of reflecting, that our humble 
Periodical has been mainly instrumental in obtaining these 
reasonable, important, indispensable, and too long withheld 
advantages. 
We will add, and we add with pleasure, that Mr. Sewell has 
become far more accessible to the pupils; that he enters freely 
into conversation with any or all of them, and seems disposed to 
communicate useful information on every point on which he is 
questioned. These are evident “ indications of improvement," and 
we cheerfully record them : yet we have to complain that theories, 
fanciful, wild, injurious,—never entertained beyond the college 
walls, and believed by no senior pupil within them, continue to be 
diligently and systematically enforced, almost to the exclusion 
