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LETTER TO SIR ASTLEY COOPER. 
however, have been perplexed beyond measure to find any palat 
able reason for excluding us. You were at length, however, re¬ 
lieved from your embarrassing dilemma (either to admit us or 
furnish something in the shape of a reason why you did not), by the 
timely discovery of the obsolete law of the College, “ which limits 
the committee to those who deliver, or who have delivered, lec¬ 
tures on subjects connected with the veterinary art.” This law 
you, doubtlessly, considered it your duty to obey, notwithstanding 
it had been dead, obsolete, and forgotten for many years, until 
this very occasion. 
“ Dead, obsolete, and forgotten!” rejoin the committee; “ no 
such thing; the law stands in the College book of laws and re¬ 
gulations ; and, being there, it was our duty to be guided by it.” 
Indeed, Gentlemen, I will not deny or dispute one syllable you 
have said: all that I have further to advance on the subject (il 
you will have it that the law is yet available) is, that the gentle¬ 
man who directed your attention to it was no friend of Professor 
Coleman’s. To prove to you he was not, I will rake up a few 
more old “ laws” for your consideration, which, like the one above, 
still stand in the book; but which, unlike the one above, have 
been, for many, many years, utterly disregarded and unattended 
to : in fact, are at the present time, in all sorts of w 7 ays, infringed 
on and violated. 
“ Regulations for the Veterinary College.” 
I. Any person desirous of becoming a pupil on the foundation 
of the College, must be able to read and to write legibly . Pre¬ 
ference shall be given to those youths icho shall have received the 
elements of a good education , fyc. 
II. Candidates qualified according to the preceding article, 
and not being under the age of 15 years , nor more than 22, fyc. 
“ Of the Distribution of the Studies .” 
“ Although the particular distribution of the studies shall be 
referred to the judgment of the Professor, yet the general order 
of them shall be nearly as follows : — 
“ 1st. Course.. .The Study of Zootomy.” (Not taught.) 
“ 2nd. Course.. .The Study of the Exterior of the Horse.” (Not taught.) 
“ 3d. Course.. .Course of Operations.” (Not taught except extra paid for.) 
“ 4th. Course.. .Course of Pharmacy.’’ (Not taught.) 
“ 5th. Course... Course of Botany.” (Not taught.) 
“ 6th. Course.. .Shoeingand Pathology.” (The former not taught.) 
“ 7th. Course.. .Attention to the Stables.” 
“8th. Course... Epizootic Diseases.” (Not known.) 
