VETERINARY ANNIVERSARY DINNER. 117 
curnng in the College infirmary, they would avoid tlie mortifi- 
cation of seeing a distorted and discreditable statement ol tliem 
copied into foreign journals, accompanied by the announcement 
that the editors of those journals would diligently collect all such 
cases, that they might compare the principles and practice of the 
French and English schools. 
The transactions of the Veterinary Medical Society would like¬ 
wise be the fit repository of any paper of the professor as Hono¬ 
rary President of that Society, or of Mr. Sewell, as an occasional 
visitor, and, we trust, soon a member of it. 
We stop the press, and somewhat inconveniently disarrange 
our matter, to state a rumour which has just reached us, and from 
a source on which we can place much reliance, that the competent 
authorities at the Veterinary College have determined to enforce 
a longer residence at that school by every pupil. 
An attendance of at least twelve months, it is said, will be ex- 
acted from every student, although he may be the son of a fame) 
or veterinary surgeon, or may have served an apprenticeship to 
either, and an attendance of two years by him who has not pos¬ 
sessed this previous and most important advantage. 
We announce this with pleasure and gratitude. The insufficient 
education of the veterinary surgeon has been the main cause of 
our present lamentable degradation. The countiy has been in¬ 
undated by those who knew not the principles, and had never 
seen the practice of their profession. 
This concession to public opinion is gratifying and honourable. 
We regard it as the harbinger of a new and happier era in the 
history of the veterinary art. Let the professors, or the governors, 
or even the examiners (angry as we are at present with these last 
gentlemen), begin to evince a disposition to vindicate the honour 
and consult the true interests of that profession m which we have 
embarked our hopes and fortunes, and every hostile demonstra¬ 
tion, every unfriendly feeling, will, on our part, for ever cease. 
These gentlemen shall have the credit of kindly conceding that 
which we might justly and sternly demand, and our feeble voice 
of approbation shall mark and cheer then progress. 
Wc might well say, a few pages back, and when we dreamed 
not of this, that wc were satisfied with the prospect before us ; and 
