THE FETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1838. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The English Agricultural Society has published its funda¬ 
mental resolutions and purposes. Among them stands the fol¬ 
lowing one,—all-important both to the agriculturist and to oui* 
profession : To take measures for improving the veterinary 
art, as applied to cattle, sheep, and pigs.” 
By this public declaration, the society stands pledged to 
accomplish an object that has been dear to every ardent and 
honourable mind connected with our art, but which, until lately, 
we had been compelled to regard as far distant or never to be 
attained —the extension of our art to all its legitimate branches. 
While we hail with delight this hope of better days, it behoves 
us to devote every power to the honest working out of that 
which so nearly concerns us and our country. 
A circumstance has just occurred which, if rightly improved, 
will materially contribute to hasten and secure the accomplish¬ 
ment of our wishes. The late Assistant Demonstrator at the 
Veterinary College is no longer connected with that institution. 
We express,—we feel no improper triumph at the removal of 
that gentleman. He possesses very considerable talent, and has 
thrown much valuable light on several points of equine physio- 
logy ; but he was no comparative anatomist or pathologist: and 
the consciousness of that made him almost systematically divert 
the attention of the pupils from every thing that had not primary 
or exclusive reference to the horse. It would, therefore, have 
been with difficulty and with many disadvantages that the strict 
and useful examination of the ox, and the sheep, and the pig, 
and the dog, and the bird, could have been established in the 
dissecting room of the Veterinary College. 
No gentleman has yet been appointed to superintend the dis¬ 
sections at the institution ; indeed, the time for dissection is, for 
the present season, nearly or quite past : but ere the commence¬ 
ment of another session, a gentleman must be (bund fully compc- 
