40 THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION* 
forced ; and the consequence has been, that never did more 
pupils pass who will prove an honour to their profession than in 
the last two or three months. We know the majority of them, 
and we can speak of them: a regular supply of such recruits 
would make our corps all that we could wish. In our next an¬ 
nual retrospect we shall have to record, that the word of promise 
has been kept with regard to the actual residence , the actual at¬ 
tendance on lectures and on practice , as well as the mere lapse 
of time. 
Next we have to remark the spirited exposure of that incon¬ 
ceivably strange farrago, the College Pharmacopoeia; and the tacit 
acknowledgment that a collection of recipes, so unchemical, in¬ 
applicable, and barbarous, admitted not of one word of defence, 
and would be henceforward discarded and disowned. 
Far superior to this are the valuable additions to physiological 
and pathological science, which the fourth volume of The Vete¬ 
rinarian contains. 
We may surely add—although it be of a personal character, 
yet as intimately connected with the advancement of the veteri¬ 
nary art—the attachment of a veterinary lecturer to the medi¬ 
cal school of the University of London—the acknowledgment, 
and in such an institution, that the practice of veterinary medi¬ 
cine is a legitimate branch of medical science. To this we may 
subjoin, the publication of the lectures of the individual so ap¬ 
pointed, in a Journal which finds its way to every part of the civi¬ 
lized world ; and thus the advocacy of our cause, in every medical 
school throughout the world : and, last of all, the announcement 
of a new school of veterinary medicine, the instruction of which 
will extend to every branch of our art; and of which school we 
will only say, that if its teachers prove incompetent or faithless, 
our Journal will be open for their merited exposure. 
Having pursued our “up-hill work” thus far, and so glorious a 
prospect lying before us, we are willing to rest a while, at least 
from controversy; and we invite our talented friends, those by 
whose communications the pages of our periodical used to be en¬ 
riched, and those whose lucubrations still give value to our work, 
and some of whom, perhaps of both classes, have been a little idle, 
