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THE ENGIJSH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
"Demonstrator will be stated in due time, and the public will 
judge of them. It would, perhaps, scarcely be believed, if it 
could not easily and clearly be proved, that attempts have been 
made, and are intended to be repeated, to prevent pupils from 
attending a veterinary school which I am about to open. At 
present, I will trespass no further on your space than to request 
you, as a matter of candour and fairness, to insert this letter in 
the next number of The Veterinarian. 
THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1 , 1838 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
A SUB-COMMITTEE of veterinary affairs has been appointed 
by the English Agricultural Society. It would be irregular for 
us, at present, to publish any of their pioceedings ; but we may 
say thus far, that the interests of the veterinary art will not suffer 
in their hands. As soon as we can do it with propriety, a de¬ 
tailed account of all the proceedings of that sub-committee shall 
be given. A regular account of the general proceedings of the 
Society will be found in that increasingly useful periodical, “The 
Farmer’s Magazine.” 
It is singular that, while an attempt is now making to esta¬ 
blish at the London Veterinary College that extended system of 
instruction which its founders had contemplated, the professors 
of the Alfort School are replying to the charge of neglecting at 
their establishment every animal except the horse. 
In the immediate neighbourhood of large towns the equine 
patients will always be more numerous than those from any 
other class of domesticated animals, and the attention of the 
professors and the students will be most frequently directed to 
them. The cattle, which constitute a considerable part of the 
riches of the agriculturist, are usually reared and fed at a con¬ 
siderable distance from these large towns, where the ground and 
its produce are comparatively dearer than in the country. The 
maladies with which they are attacked are generally of a more 
serious and fatal kind, or of a far more trifling nature than those 
