2() ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
the other. I then brought him back, and put his nose to the 
corn; but he smelled the bacon, and immediately darted at it, 
and ate it greedily up. He then ate his corn. The groom in¬ 
formed me that he will finish the bone of a leg of mutton in a 
few minutes, and that roasted meat is his favourite dish. 
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
Although I am not, in your slang language, a “ Vet,” I am 
a lover of horses, and a proprietor of cattle; and, perhaps, feel 
almost as interested as yourselves in the improvement of your art. 
In the early part of your last volume you inserted a lengthy, 
yet interesting account of the establishment of the St. Pancras 
School. I do not, however, think that you, or rather the author 
of the book from which you quote, have done justice to the real 
founders of that institution. Much praise is due to the public- 
spirited individuals, whether medical or simply amateurs, who 
came forward with their patronage and their money ; but you 
have somewhat slurred over the exertions and the services of the 
Odiham Agricultural Society, with which, in fact, the whole 
business originated, and by whom alone it was nourished into 
infant life. 
You say that in August, 1785, the Odiham Society first took 
the subject into consideration, and that from that time to May, 
1788, nothing was done by them. You are doubly inaccurate in 
that assertion. Old, and family, and perhaps personal recol¬ 
lections, have in a manner bound me to your profession, although 
not a member of it. I glory in your now rapid progress towards 
that actual state of science, and rank in society, which you should 
possess.—Go on and prosper. 
Influenced by these feelings, I must not have the merit of your 
parents, and the gratitude due to them, quite monopolized by 
your nurses, excellent and industrious as they were. I therefore 
send you the proceedings of the Odiham Society, so far as they 
have reference to you. 
Agricola. 
Odiham Society, 29th July, 1785. 
Resolved, That farriery is a most useful science, and intimately 
connected with the interests of agriculture ; that it is in a very 
