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editors' address. 
nate days takes his clinical round through the hospital. He is 
accessible, friendly, and eager to communicate, and daily com¬ 
municating much valuable instruction. 
In his introductory lecture, although Mr. Coleman did not 
recant certain doctrines to which his best friencis used to listen 
with surprise, dissatisfaction, and regret, his language was more 
guarded, and something was conceded to the undisguised and 
prevailing opinion of the profession. 
And, most interesting of all, there is but one sentiment per¬ 
vading the whole body of veterinary surgeons—an early and an 
all-important consequence of the circulation of veterinary period¬ 
icals. In this sentiment the pupils, even at the college, are 
evidently participating ; it is re-echoed by the united voice of the 
practitioners of human medicine, and approved by the public at 
large. It has, if we are not much deceived, penetrated the meet¬ 
ings of the governors, and the conclave of the examiners } and we 
augur from it the happiest, and not far distant result. A more 
extended system of education, reaching to every opeiation and 
manipulation Gf the stable and the forge, and to erery legitimate 
patient, every domesticated quadruped—an attendance at the 
college considerably prolonged beyond the present absuid and 
disgraceful period,—and the admission to the examineis board oi 
some few veterinary surgeons, who are best calculated to decide, 
and who alone can decide, on the competency ot the candidate , 
these are points on which we have not heard a diffeience of opi¬ 
nion among veterinarians, medical men, or the enlightened pub¬ 
lic —these are points which must be concecied to us, if not now, 
and with a good grace, yet at no remote day, perhaps unwil¬ 
lingly, and when they can no longer be refused. 
As to the subject of some letters in our present number—the 
exclusion of veterinary surgeons as subscribers to the college 
we cannot, for a moment, bring ourselves to imagine that the 
general meeting of subscribers can be induced to sanction a 
measure so absurd, invidious, and unjust. It was adopted at 
a meeting of governors in a moment of irritation; theii good 
sense and good feeling will, we trust, permit it to die a natural 
death. • . , , 
All our readers, however, are not professional men, aithoug 1 
