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to be a feeling strongly prevailing among them, as soon as the pre¬ 
sent alterations at the College are in full working, to retire from a 
post which should now be occupied by others. 
When this hour shall arrive—and we apprehend that it is not 
and cannot be far distant—we will render them our cordial thanks 
for the kindnesses and the benefits which they have bestowed upon 
us—we will forget that, to a considerable, although by them unsus¬ 
pected degree, they have contributed in some not unimportant re¬ 
spects to retard the progress of our art; and it will be our pride to 
convince them—and that will be the best reward for their ser¬ 
vices—that we are now enabled to conduct our profession to that 
degree of high and just estimation of which it is fully deserving. 
Speaking of examinations, there is a point to which Mr. Hallen 
has very properly referred in the 14th page of this Journal—the 
necessity of their being extended to the practical portions of our 
profession. This is a most important consideration. It bears 
heavily on what we have just stated as to the proper constitution 
of the Examiners’ Board, and it also exposes an inexcusable neg¬ 
lect attending our examinations, and ours alone, throughout almost 
the whole world. The casting—the securing our patients for ope¬ 
rations, and the actual performance of the operations incident to 
veterinary practice, are most important improvements. There 
needs not to be any cruel exhibition here. The casting, and the 
restraints necessary for the different operations, might be exhibited 
on the living subject; the actual operation might be shewn on the 
dead one, or, possibly, on some animal easily enough to be pro¬ 
cured, and to whom the successful perlbrmance of it would be a 
blessing. We respectfully but strongly urge this on the serious at¬ 
tention of the Governors. 
No quadruped patient has yet found its way into the newly- 
erected buildings at the Royal Veterinary College: some slicep 
and pigs, however, have been bought, and experiments are now 
making on the effect of certain medicaments upon them. Tliis 
is all very proper, although it must not be forgotten that the 
effect of a certain medicine during the health and the sickness of an 
animal is not a little different, and that the real object of the me¬ 
dicines which we administer is to restore and not to interfere with 
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