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any apprentices, and shall be deprived of much of our comfort and 
our emolument. A portion of our business, too, we shall be com- 
■ pelled to abandon. There will be plenty to take it; but will they 
be able to conduct it with credit to the profession ] 
“ I could say a great deal on this point, but I refrain. I could 
wish that in our profession, as in others, none should be admitted as 
pupils, or as candidates for a diploma, who have not undergone a 
previous preparation as apprentices, or in some other way. One 
thing more the experience I have had in a somewhat long life tells 
me, viz. that the young men who have not had any previous prac¬ 
tice are those who pay the least attention, and distinguish them¬ 
selves the least when at College.” 
There is a great deal of truth in these observations, and they de¬ 
serve the serious consideration of the governors of the College. In¬ 
justice is done to the pupil who has already devoted much time 
and money to a preparation for the honours of the school, and many 
a practitioner will experience serious inconvenience from the diffi¬ 
culty or impossibility of obtaining pupils or apprentices. We ear¬ 
nestly recommend these memorials to the attention of those who 
have the power to remedy the evil so justly complained of. 
We regret that so great a portion of the present number is neces¬ 
sarily occupied by the contents of The VETERINARIAN of 1839. 
We have much interesting and important matter for the next num¬ 
ber ; and if our contributors would permit us to have a few papers 
on hand, and a little abbreviated, we should often be enabled ad¬ 
vantageously and usefully to classify our materials. 
The account of the evening of the first day of the Association 
will be read with peculiar interest. The oration by the Secretary 
—(|uite in his own style—will amply repay the perusal. It 
embraces a mass of information, a crowd of useful hints, the im¬ 
portance of which it will be his pleasure and his pride more fully 
to illustrate. 
The lectures which, unacknowledged, he had been in the habit 
of delivering to his class, and his truly scientific work on Veteri¬ 
nary Pharmacy, might have been received as sufficient pledges of 
his ability to discharge the duties of chemical lecturer. We re¬ 
joice, however, to add, that he has since appeared with the highest 
