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ARABIAN HORSES. 
Our friend, Mr. Clarke, and others like him, can do us and 
himself much good here. Let them patronize the man, who, in 
their neighbourhood, appears to devote himself most diligently to 
this branch of his profession. Mr. Clarke belongs, perhaps, to 
some district society; let him endeavour to obtain for this man 
the honorary title of veterinary surgeon to that society. The title 
would not long be honorary ; for he would be remunerated by an 
increasing knowledge of his profession, and perchance by some¬ 
thing more substantial: and the country would be benefitted, 
for his brethren would strive not to be quite eclipsed by him, or 
that they might be deemed qualified to succeed to him. 
And if the great societies, the Bath and West of England Society, 
and the Smithfield club, were to appoint their veterinary surgeons, 
or to institute lectureships, or patronize schools devoted to in¬ 
struction on the medical treatment of cattle and sheep, a new 
and irresistible impetus would be given to this most important 
branch of veterinary study;—the old school would return to that 
system from which it ought never to have been permitted to de¬ 
viate, and other schools would not have the power to deviate at 
all. The veterinary profession would be put upon its proper 
basis, and the country would be greatly benefitted. 
To the study of the diseases of cattle in a veterinary school we 
would add one other branch, and that at present totally neglected. 
We will describe it in the language of Sir Astley Cooper at the 
last dinner of the veterinary students. If there is any branch 
of science which more than another concerns the veterinary stu¬ 
dent, it is chemistry, and particularly that division of it which 
concerns the soil^ and its imiprovement, and its produce, and renders 
him usef ul tOy and, in a manner, identified with those among whom 
he will have to lived' Is there no one to be found to fill up these 
chasms ? Y. 
ON ARABIAN HORSES. 
[We extract the following account of the Arabian horse from 
the ‘‘ ISiew Sporting Magazine," This work rapidly increases 
in interest and value. The reader may, indeed, calculate on 
finding something good in it, when he learns that Nimrod, the 
prince of sporting chroniclers, and the author of those excellent 
letters on ‘^the Condition of the Hunter,” is one of the chief 
contributors. This paper was originally taken from the Asiatic 
Journal,” a work of established and sterling merit ]— Edit. 
“ The collective term whereby the Arabs designate horses in 
general is khayl. They distribute them commonly into five 
