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of his property. To this, among other objects, the attention of 
the association will be directed. 
It has, indeed, been already announced, that no effort will be 
spared by this association to improve the general management 
of cattle, sheep, and swine, and particularly the knowledge and 
treatment of their diseases. This comes home to our business and 
bosoms as veterinary surgeons. In what way shall we contri¬ 
bute to the accomplishment of this noble purpose, or in what 
way will our interests be affected by it ? Are we competent to 
assist in this good work ? Have we received that fundamental 
instruction which will qualify us for it? 
Here has hitherto been the great blot on the English school. 
Even .in the northern college, the diseases of cattle, I will not 
say are neglected, but do not form so prominent and laboured a 
portion of instruction as they ought to do. The able and 
zealous professor of that school, now commencing, as it were, a 
new career, will see to it that this branch of our art has all the 
attention paid to it w'hich its importance demands. In the Eng¬ 
lish school the neglect of it has been perfectly indefensible. The 
repeated pledges of Mr. Coleman have never been redeemed. The 
few lectures which Mr. Sewell could, without neglecting the other 
subjects of his course, bestow on it, were far from being sufficient 
to prepare the pupil for a scientific and honest practice on the 
diseases of the ruminant. We will venture this public challenge— 
l^ot a student has left the St. Pancras College for many a year, 
who will say that he was efficiently instructed in the anatomy and 
physiology and diseases of cattle and sheep. This is a state of 
things to which the English Agricultural Association will speedily 
put an end, and the profession at large should demand it. 
If that Association would, like the Highland Society, grant a 
certain sum from their funds toathird professor, acquainted with 
the anatomy and diseases of the other domesticated animals beside 
the horse, this, added to the fees which he would obtain from the 
pupils, would produce an income with which a young or a middle- 
aged gentleman would probably be satisfied. Nothing short 
of this would accomplish the purpose. The anatomy and diseases 
of cattle, &c. would fully occupy the attention of one teacher ; 
nor could he possibly do justice to his subject if he had lectures 
