OPENING OF VETERINARY SCHOOL AT TOULOUSE 147 , 
It would be strange if, after the lapse of nearly forty years, some im¬ 
provement could not be effected in the system of veterinary education. 
To the college at St. Pancras, as at present managed, it bears 
scarcely the shadow of resemblance. W e entreat our professors, our 
governors, our examiners, the agricultural societies of the country, 
and the public at large, to compare the one with the other, the 
object , the management , and the effect; and particularly in con¬ 
nexion with the interest of the agriculturist, and the prosperity of 
the state. 
The Prefect of the department of La Haute-Garonne presided, 
assisted by the Secretary-General, the Mayor of Toulouse, many 
noblemen, savans , land-proprietors, and all the veterinarians of the 
city and garrison. 
M. Rodet, one of the professors, read the names of the pupils 
who were about to be admitted. 
The Prefect then spoke of the gratitude due to the monarch for 
his liberal patronage of the veterinary schools, and the influence 
which that of Toulouse would have on the agriculture and pros¬ 
perity of the southern provinces. He expressed the confidence 
which he, and the government of which he was the organ, reposed 
on the talent, industry, and zeal of the professors. He addressed 
himself particularly to the pupils, and inculcated the necessity of 
the union of good conduct and religion with science, if they would 
become respectable and useful; and recommended subordination 
and a love of study; and promised his patronage, and that of the 
government, to all who proved themselves deserving of it. 
M. Dupuy, the director, then rose. 
Sixty-six years, he said, had passed since the veterinary school 
at Lyons was established. At an early period it had rendered 
such important services, that Louis XV had taken it under his 
especial patronage. Bourgelat was its founder, and Bertin united 
those excellent institutions, the agricultural societies and the vete¬ 
rinary schools. M. Dupuy enlarged on the advantage and ne¬ 
cessity of such a connexion. They both regarded the breed, 
utility, preservation, and health of all domesticated animals. They 
could not be disunited without rendering both imperfect. Al¬ 
though the knowledge of rural economy would with the veterina¬ 
rian be principally speculative, numerous instances would occur 
