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The gratulations on the advancing improvement of veterinary 
education will find an echo in everv heart. 
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To the request of the appointment of some able pathological 
teacher on “the Diseases of Cattle and Sheep,” there will not be a 
dissentient voice. These were originally designed to form a part of 
the education of the student. The introduction of them has lately 
been demanded by the English Agricultural Society, and there is 
not a practitioner in the kingdom who does not deplore the omis¬ 
sion of them. We disavow all feeling of personal disrespect to 
Mr. Sewell; “ we can,” as we expressed ourselves in the January 
number, “ admire the zeal of him who would attempt, and fain 
would worthily execute, every part of his supposed duty, as pro¬ 
fessor of the pathology of every domesticated animal, but there 
may be an accumulation of duties to which no individual is or can 
be equal. He who would successfully unfold and teach all the dif¬ 
ficulties of cattle practice must come from among his patients; he 
must have lived among them, and he must have seen what he 
teaches.” We would urge this on the attention of the Governors 
and of the English Agricultural Society. 
The remuneration to the Lecturers is touched upon in the Memo¬ 
rial. We select the salary of the newly acknowledged Lecturer 
on Chemistry and Materia Medica, The Professor takes a certain 
quantum of the £21 paid by the student on his entrance at the 
(Jollege; and he has a salary, and a residence, in addition to this. 
The Assistant Professor has a smaller share of the initiatory fee, 
and a smaller additional salary: and, then, there are left for the 
third teacher three portions only out of the fee of £21; he has no 
additional salary, and he is compelled to find his own apparatus and 
materials. Supposing that forty new students yearly enter, or even 
fifty, there are £120, or at most .^150, for him, and no provision 
for the expensive apparatus which he is compelled to use. Let 
us not be told that he has an additional salary as clerk. The man 
who can lecture so ably, and scientifically, and satisfactorily, on 
the important subjects of Chemistry and Materia Medica, ought 
not to be compelled to degrade himself to the labours of a clerk, 
in order to eke out his scanty income. The increasing of the foe 
to 30 guineas or more, according to the number of lectures, would 
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