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and from that moment their institution will decline. The students 
which they would otherwise have had will flock to other schools, 
or a new school will spring up and thrive in their immediate 
neighbourhood ; or the anatomy and diseases of cattle will form 
^a prominent object in the curriculum of the Central Agricultural 
School, which will doubtless be ere long established, and before 
which every other institution that has been faithless to its trust 
will fade away. 
Let us, however, hope for better things. If our teachers and 
governors will do their duty, the triumph of our art is now in 
good earnest commencing, and its progress is assured. We are 
confident that there is but one spirit, one feeling pervading the 
whole profession. It needs only to be expressed in order to 
secure the advantages which now present themselves. We oft’er 
our humble periodical as the medium through which this may be 
done. The course is easy—the result is assured. 
The original prospectus of the Veterinary College states, that 
*Hhe grand object of its institution is to form a school of veteri¬ 
nary science, in which the anatomical structure of quadrupeds 
of all kinds, horses, cattle, sheep, 5ic., the diseases to which they 
are subject, and the remedies proper to be applied, may be in¬ 
vestigated and regularly taught, in order that, by these means, 
enlightened practitioners of liberal education, whose whole study 
has been devoted to the veterinary art in all its branches, may be 
gradually dispersed over the kingdom, on whose skill and ex¬ 
perience confidence may be securely placed.” This was the 
foundation of the institution. This was what a veterinary school 
ought to be. This is what the English Agricultural Society has 
pledged itself to carry into effect. Every thing is propitious. 
There is but one simple step to be taken—the institution of 
anatomical demonstrations of the structure and physiology of 
cattle and sheep, (which have been so long and so strangely and 
utterly neglected), and a connected and full explication of all the 
diseases of these animals, and the mode of cure. 
The man who is to accomplish this must be young, and his 
faculties altogether unimpaired—he must be an anatomist, and 
a physiologist — and his heart must be in the cause. Is it diffi- 
