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THK MEAIOIIIAL OF THE 
“The events which have recently taken place in the education of 
the veterinary student will still further tend to render the pupil 
competent‘to practise the ‘ veterinary art,’ to fulfil to a greater ex¬ 
tent the intentions of the founders of the Veterinary College, and 
render the veterinary surgeon of still greater importance in the 
estimation of the public. 
“While, however, your Memorialists are happy in giving utter¬ 
ance to these feelings of gratitude, they cannot conceal the regret 
with which they have regarded several recent resolutions of your 
Council. 
“ Having been students in the Royal Veterinary College, and 
many of them for several years engaged in country practice, they 
have seen with deep interest the important advances which their 
sister science. Medicine, has made in the education of her pupils, 
and they have felt within themselves a natural and pardonable 
kind of emulation. They therefore trust that you will forgive 
them if they candidly state to you their opinions on one or two 
points connected with the present education of the veterinary 
student. 
“ In all the medical schools in the metropolis, many of you are 
doubtless aware that due care is taken, in the first place, to secure 
efficient lecturers on the different subjects that form the student’s 
study; and, in the next place, to see that these lecturers are pro¬ 
perly remunerated for their time and attention, and the great re¬ 
sponsibility which they incur. Your Memorialists have great 
satisfaction in observing that the Veterinary College has not been 
backward in providing for the first of these objects; and that effi¬ 
cient lecturers are employed with credit to themselves, and with 
benefit to the pupil, in elucidating the anatomy and physiology of 
the horse, cattle, sheep, &c., the pathology and surgical treatment 
of the horse, and also materia medica, pharmacy, and chemistry. 
With regard to the other subjects which the founders of the Vete¬ 
rinary College thought fit to select as essential to the education of 
the student, your Memorialists regret that you have not as yet 
thought it advisable to appoint labourers efficient to carry all 
these original designs into effect,—particularly the most important 
among them, the medical treatment of cattle, sheep, hogs, &c.— 
