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editors’ address. 
an overwhelming majority of our profession. We all feel what we 
ought to be, as veterinary surgeons; we lament what we are; 
and we are bound together by the ardent wish, and the film de¬ 
termination, to vindicate our claim to that rank in society, and 
that place in the public estimation, to which we are justly 
entitled. We lament the imperfections of our present system of 
education, and the abuses which we, too supine, have suffered to 
creep into the system pursued at our school; and we are leagued 
together—we speak advisedly—the whole veterinaiy profession, 
temperately yet firmly, and the more firmly because temperately, 
to oppose and rectify these abuses. But we love that seminary, 
that alma mater , whence we first derived the rudiments of vete¬ 
rinary lore. It is because we love it that we are anxious to leform 
it; and while we are pursuing, and will accomplish, the work of 
reformation, we will eagerly defend it against all who, undei the 
mask of reformation, are plotting its destruction. 
We congratulate the veterinary public on the improved ap¬ 
pearance of the present year. Veterinary periodicals have been 
established, through the medium of which the sentiments and 
wishes of the profession may be easily and truly attained ; and the 
little discoveries which we make may be communicated to each 
other, and every one has his peculiarity of treatment, or his im¬ 
proved method of operating, or his more scientific conception of 
the nature of disease. 
Veterinary medical societies have been established in the me¬ 
tropolis ; and those who are regarded as the principal ornaments 
of their profession being now accustomed to meet together, and 
freely discuss every subject connected with veterinary practice, 
much that is new, and pleasing, and useful, must be elicited from 
the collision of such men. * * 
There are at the college evident symptoms of improvement. 
A demonstrator is now appointed, to assist the pupils in laying 
the only sure foundation for scientific practice and well-earned 
emolument and fame—an accurate knowledge ol anatomy. A 
regard to truth, and a sense of honour, will forbid that the student 
shall ever again be left to wander, unguided and bewildered, 
through the labyrinths of minute dissection. 
The professor, his health comparatively re-established, on alter- 
