TilE OPENING OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 657 
weeks from a near neighbour a sound horse. But so much for 
liome-bred science ! 
If ignorance be bliss, &c. See. 
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 
A Looker-on. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1833. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The last was a busy month among veterinary teachers and 
pupils. On the 15th, Mr. Dick commenced his v/inter course; 
and to a class which, by its increased numbers and respectabi¬ 
lity, gave him promise of no distant reward for the zeal he 
evinced in the erection of his noble establishment in Clyde 
Street. 
On the 18th, in the morning, Mr. Coleman delivered his in¬ 
troductory lecture. The theatre was, as usual, crowded by his 
present class and old pupils. He appeared to be in full health 
and spirits. 
On the evening of 1 he'same day, Mr. Percivall made his first 
appearance as a veterinary teacher, and at the University of 
London. Our readers shall judge of the merit of his first essay, 
for his lecture will enrich the next number. I will only say, 
that I congratulate the veterinary public in, at length, having 
him in a character which he ought long ago to have sustained. 
He had, however, been previously afflicted with an inflammatory 
affection of the bronchial passages ; and for the removal of 
which he had obtained a long leave of absence, and has visited 
another clime. The unaccustomed exertion of speaking for an 
hour, to a numerous audience, and in a large theatre, produced 
so much irritation of the bronchial membrane, that he was reluc¬ 
tantly compelled to abandon the attempt at delivering a second 
lecture. His coadjutor was still too much indisposed to attempt 
the task, and the lectures were unavoidably susixjndod. 
