EDITORIAL REMARKS. 103 
that this is not the beginnings but the second effort I have made 
to obtain an examining committee of veterinary surgeons. It 
was not in my power to command success, but I did then, what 
I will do now, ‘do more,’ deserve it.” That unfortunate ex¬ 
pression, uttered by Sir Astley Cooper on the 23d of January, 
1830, The present examining committee is the best constituted 
that can possibly be devised,” places him in direct opposition 
to the profession, and seemingly to the Professor too, and that 
on a point of vital importance—the very all in all in veterinary 
politics. We speak all this politically, for in respect for Sir 
Astley Cooper in his private and professional character we will 
yield to none ; nay, even in this very affair, knowing it in all its 
bearings, we do not dislike the old attached friend, although we 
protest (and no man will more readily acknowledge the propriety 
of the protest than the worthy baronet himself) against the foe 
to veterinary improvement. 
There was a curious similitude, which our readers cannot fail 
of observing, in the language in which no less than three of the 
“ invited ones” addressed us at the meeting, with regard to the 
scope and bound of veterinary instruction. Collegiate instruction 
had reference, according to them, to the horse, and the horse alone. 
There was not, there could not be, any conspiracy in this—there 
could not be more meant than met the ear; but it arose from 
ignorance, strange ignorance, in veterinary examiners, of what 
is, or ought to be, the extent of the veterinary pupil’s inquiries, 
and of the instruction communicated to him. Will the horse, 
except in a large town or in a cavalry regiment, be the only 
object entrusted to the veterinarian’s care; or, although indivi¬ 
dually so, is he in the aggregate the most important one ? Is 
there a veterinary school in Christendom beside this in which 
the instruction of the pupil is confined to the horse? Was it 
intended that it should be thus confined even here? These 
medical examiners of veterinary students will please for the fu¬ 
ture to remember, that a veterinary school, and, what this was 
intended to be, is one “ in which the anatomical structure of 
quadrupeds of all kinds, horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, &c., the 
diseases to which they are subject, and the remedies proper to 
