28 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
terials for manufacture with which these animals supply us, and 
which form so valuable a part of the staple riches of the country. 
Odiham Society, Dec. 6, 1785. 
Resolved, That the propositions of the last meeting for pro¬ 
moting the study of farriery, upon rational scientific principles, 
and opening subscriptions for different funds, have been taken 
into consideration ; and that the further consideration of the said 
propositions be deferred until the general meeting next after the 
anniversary. 
Other subjects now occupied their attention, and a slight dif¬ 
ference of opinion took place in the Society. The subject, how¬ 
ever, was frequently and anxiously discussed ; but it was not 
until May, 1788, that they determined to solicit subscriptions to 
send some young men to be educated in the veterinary schools 
in France. Much as the interest of the agriculturist was con¬ 
cerned it was difficult to rouse him to a proper sense of it; and 
another year elapsed before they were enabled, or dared to bring 
the thing in a tangible form before the public. 
Their resolutions afterwards, which I enclose, in addition to 
those which you have inserted, do them honour, and especially 
the last, in which, after having laboured so long, and almost un¬ 
supported, they commit the management of the completion of 
their work to other hands, and to whom also they seem to be 
willing to resign all the merit of it. 
Odiham Society, Aug. 5th, 1789. 
Resolved, That for the complete establishment of farriery, on 
rational and scientific principles, in this country, such institutions 
for education in farriery are necessary as have been established in 
France, Geimany, Piedmont, Sweden, Denmark, 8cc. 
That, till such institutions be established, the following ob¬ 
jects are principally necessary towards the improvement of far¬ 
riery : — 
1. To send some intelligent lads for education in farriery to 
such places in which good schools are already established. 
2. To collect, by premiums and otherwise, exact descriptions 
of remarkable cures of diseases in horses, cows, and sheep, pro¬ 
perly authenticated ; descriptions of the dissections of the dis¬ 
eased parts of horses, cows, and sheep, &c. 
3. To provide, under parliamentary authority, some means of 
placing the profession of farriery, even as now practised, on a 
more respectable footing than it is at present; such as by pre¬ 
venting farriery being practised except by licensed farriers; by 
