592 INSTRUCTION AT THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
certain figures and marks as letters of the alphabet, sigma and 
kappa being the most common (whence horses so marked were 
called ^u'K^oL'Ticiii and '^uvCpo^ui, from auv, the ancient name for 
aiyiLci) initials of the owners names, or those which denoted 
the breed and country, figures of animals, and other devices 
Thus Lucian mentions the practice of stamping horses with the 
figure of a centaur; and Bucephalus is said to have been marked 
with the fiQ;;ure of a bull. 
Larchiei^’s Cabinet Cyclopoddia, No. 47 ; Arts and 
Manufactures of the Greeks and Romans. 
ON THE SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION AT THE 
VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By Studens. 
Gentlemen, 
Although you did not insert the letter of a Student, ad¬ 
dressed to you in the spring of 1831, on some of the sub¬ 
jects on which I am now about to write, you took such notice 
of it, that, as I am told, the desired effect was for a time, too 
short a time, produced. Weil, gentlemen, things were at the 
close of the last session got as bad as ever. I think that you are 
somewhat quiet about this said College of ours of late ; some 
of us think too quiet. Others of us imagine that we can appre¬ 
ciate your motives—^that some of you being teachers yourselves, 
there is a principle of courtesy and honour which prevents you 
from bearing too hard on your brethren ;—and others say, that 
you are satisfied with the progress of reform everywhere else, 
and are assured that veterinary reform will not ‘‘ lag far be- 
Whatever be your motive, your conduct in the management of 
your Journal compels us to believe that it is a good one ; but if 
it be connected with that said courtesy and honour, permit me 
to tell you, that there is a false as well as true honour, and that 
the duties you owe to your profession a thousand times outweigh 
any supposed ones to your fellow-teachers. You should have 
strength of mind enough to see this, and to brave the sarcasm 
with which fools and knaves might endeavour to load you. You 
saw, at the last ^dinner, what interpretation some of those to 
whom I am alluding put on your conduct, and the advantage 
they took of it so far as they dared. Depend upon it, you will 
meet with much more opposition and annoyance, while you are 
pursuing the present smooth and even tenour of your way,’^ 
than when youassuinc the firm and determined, and, I say, noble 
attitude which you were accustomed to assume. There are some 
