ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 29 
who has not served seven years’ apprenticeship under a licensed 
farrier, &c. 
Resolved, that an advertisement be inserted in the Reading, 
Winchester, Romsev, and Salisbury papers, and in the Racing 
Calendar, Morning Post, and W^orld, notifying the Society’s in¬ 
tention of sending, in the course of the ensuing spring, two 
boys to the farriery school at Charenton, near Paris, and invit¬ 
ing such parents as may approve the views of the Society to 
make their applications to the Society, by letter directed to the 
secretary at Odiham, or the committee in London. 
That a committee be appointed in London to receive all appli¬ 
cations for premiums to be proposed for collecting descriptions of 
cures, and dissections of diseased horses, cows, and sheep ; to 
determine the said premiums ; to collect such intelligence as may 
be necessary towards an application to parliament for rendering 
the profession of farriery more respectable to its professors, and 
more useful to the community; and to communicate to the com¬ 
mittee, at Odiham, whatever may appear to be conducive to the 
views of the Society for promoting the improvement of farriery. 
That the committee be empowered to offer, in the name of the 
Society, premiums for exact descriptions of remarkable cures of 
horses, cows, and sheep ; dissections of diseased parts, &c. &c. 
That Mr. Huntingford, late secretary to the Odiham Society, 
and now resident in London, be appointed secretary to the com¬ 
mittee at their meetings in London. 
The secretary reported, that Monsieur Vial de St. Bel had 
presented ten copies of a plan for establishing an institution to 
cultivate and teach veterinary medicine, to the use of the mem¬ 
bers of the Society. 
Odiham Agricultural Society, November 18, 1790. 
The Odiham Agricultural Society, having appointed a com¬ 
mittee to meet in London, for the purpose of forwarding the 
intention of the Society towards the improvement of farriery, 
by collecting from men of experience and practical knowledge, well 
authenticated facts relative to the diseases of horses, cows, and 
sheep, their treatment and cure; the committee have agreed to 
offer the following premium :— 
For the best collection of cases (not less than twenty) of the 
disease in horses called the glanders, with the treatment and cure, 
an honp^ary premium of ten guineas value : the cases to be sent 
to the secretary, at No. 10, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, 
on or before the (ith day of January, 1791, without names, or in¬ 
timation to whom they belong, marked in what manner each 
