OF THE PROFESSION. 
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explicit declarations of principle—that vague and luimeaning 
professions may quiet distrust for a time, may influence this 
or that mind, but that such professions must idtirnately and 
signally fail, if being made, they are not adhered to.” 
The establishment of an efficient school of veterinary anatomy, 
in the immediate neighbourhood of the College, is another 
pledge of improvement; for the student wall now be enabled to 
lay deep and sure the foundation of that superstructure which 
alone can shelter him, and add to his respectability, instead of 
an ill-formed, insecure, and treacherous fabric, which the first 
shock of doubtful or difficult practice will overwhelm, and in the 
ruins of which he will be buried. 
The extension of veterinary education to chemistry, and parti¬ 
cularly to agricultural chemistry, is another assurance that the 
good cause will progress and triumph. But, really, these in¬ 
structions should not be delivered, and the experiments made, in 
a little close room, where the lecturer has not a fair chance to do 
himself or his subject justice, and where he and his class suffer 
severely at the time and afterwards from the heat and vitiated 
air. The College theatre, most properly granted to the London 
Veterinary Medical Society, will not surely be longer withheld, 
when that science is taught which the chairman of the exa¬ 
mining committee truly asserts more than any other concerns 
the veterinary student.” 
There is another indication of continued progress, which we 
have much pleasure in stating. Youn2;men are too apt to squander 
away, in frivolous or low pursuits, the time, too short, yet all- 
important, that should be sedulously devoted to preparatory 
study. At a late examination, a considerable proportion of those 
who presented themselves had been thus incautious and censu¬ 
rable. In the tavern and the skittle-ground many an hour had 
been wasted which should have been given to better purposes. 
They were rejected—and the ground of rejection was frankly 
stated. This was as it should be. It was an act of kindness to 
those who hud suffered themselves to be thus misled. It was an 
act of justice to the profession generally: and, although we 
have never been flatterers of the examining committee, as at 
present constituted, but, on the contrary, have, in no very mea¬ 
sured terms, expressed our opinion of their composition and 
