INSTRUCTION AT THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 593 
who cannot or will not comprehend a good principle or motive, 
but they are not insensible to fear, 
I am a young scribe, and, ergo, scribbling about every thing 
but that which should employ me. Now to business, if 1 can. 
You can hardly imagine how rejoiced I was when Mr. Vines 
came into the dissecting-room at the beginning of our last ses¬ 
sion—paper in hand—and told us, that Mr, Coleman was deter¬ 
mined we should attend more to our anatomy ; and that he was 
ordered to give in daily to that gentleman a list of the names of 
those who attended the dissecting-room ; and that Mr. Coleman 
would present the class with an injected specimen, and dissected 
also for the nerves as soon as it could be prepared. Things 
are going to be as they should be,” thought I; there will be 
times such as our predecessors never saw. Bravo! old 
for ever 
I attended morning after morning, but I found no preparation. 
Well, 1 could wait for that. But there was no preparation for 
demonstration —the funds of the College, or the pockets of the 
demonstrators, could not afford even a five-shilling ass for the as¬ 
sistant demonstrator (pshaw!) to commence his boasted course. 
1 lingered on until I was tired, disgusted ; and all that I saw 
w'as, that Mr. Vines, when he was not too busy with his list, 
sometimes would, and sometimes would not, demonstrate parts 
of subjects at the request of some pupil, the subject being pur¬ 
chased at the expense of the pupil; but that he did nothing 
more. 
This is not the case at other schools. The demonstrator or 
his assistant, so far as circumstances will permit, is always at the 
service of the student, who may be poring over subjects procured 
by himself; but, beside this, there are always subjects procured 
at the expense of the institution, or of the demonstrator or the 
teacher of anatomy, so that, at an appointed how\ a regular 
and perfect course of demonstrations may he carried on. Who 
ever saw, on the table of our dissecting-room, a subject which 
cost either the institution or its officers a penny ? 
Well, gentlemen, all these fine promises and the injected pre¬ 
paration vanished in smoke, and our demonstrations are just 
where they used to be,— in nuhibus. 
What has been the consequence of this ?—why, that a private 
school of demonstration and grinding has been established under 
the very nose of the College, and that many of the students attend 
on it. Mr. Spooner is really a good anatomist, so far as the College 
instruction goes; and he has seen and heard so much of college 
examinations, that few men can better conduct the young student 
through the dangers of that passage. If, however, I, who am 
