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courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every ques¬ 
tion, and when the instruction that he communicated was 
stamped upon the memory by the good temper, and joke, and 
repartee with which it was accompanied ; these are periods which 
the old pupil likes to recall to memory, for they were hours 
pleasantly and usefully passed : and the pupil of the present 
day—if he wants a little more practical knowledge of any sub¬ 
ject treated of in the lectures, has only to take advantage of 
these occasional open-air conversaziones: he will never meet with 
any rebuff; the question being a fair one, and the manner not 
disrespectful, a plain and a kindly-expressed answer will be 
invariably given. 
On the following day, the Assistant Professor's Lectures on 
Veterinary Surgery will commence. This is a most important, 
and had been a very neglected part of collegiate instiuction. 
However we may equal or excel our continental brethren in the 
practice of veterinary medicine, we are not yet on a par with 
them in operative surgery. Mr. Sewell deserves the thanks of 
the pupil for endeavouring to fill up this chasm in the College 
tuition. A residence of more than thirty years at the College has 
furnished him with more experience than falls to the lot of most 
men ; and he has identified himself with this branch of veterinary 
education, not only by the introduction of various improvements 
in the treatment of certain diseases, and the performance of cer¬ 
tain operations, but by reviving and improving, and basing on a 
foundation never to be shaken, the noble one of neurotomy. 
Passing by certain points on which the opinion of the writer of 
this article has been formerly expressed, but never in a manner 
intentionally offensive, he has no hesitation in saying, that he 
regards the introduction of a course of lectures on veterinary 
surgery, and confined to that scope (and as wide an one it is as 
any professor could wish) as one of the greatest improvements 
that has taken place at the Royal Veterinary College for many a 
year. That student will be wanting in respect to one of his in¬ 
structors, and unmindful of his own benefit, who neglects to at¬ 
tend on them. 
In the daily clinical rounds at the College, the pupils will de- 
