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the professors of the University of London testify that he had 
never witnessed a severer examination, and never a more brilliant 
one, than that which the veterinary pupils of that humbler 
teacher had lately undergone. He said that he came, perhaps, 
a little prejudiced against veterinary students, on account of the 
class of life from which some of them came, and the ignorance, 
and incapacity, and low manners, and lower associates of too 
many veterinary practitioners; but that he was perfectly astonished, 
for they would have done credit to any university in the world. 
Veterinary students are now beginning’ to assume their proper 
character and station ; and they want but the opportunity to 
shew themselves, which has been lately afforded them, in order 
to obtain deserved estimation. 
The pupils of Professor Coleman w ill be pleased to hear, that 
their old master had, on Thursday the 23d ultimo, the honour of 
being the first veterinary surgeon who was ever admitted into 
the Royal Society : he will not, however, be the last, by many, 
who will deserve, or endeavour to deserve, that distinction. The 
schoolmaster is abroad among us ; and we will, by and by, con¬ 
vince our elder brethren of the medical profession, that we are 
not unsuccessful or unworthy fellow-labourers in the field of 
science. 
Some time during the last month the annual meeting of the 
governors and subscribers of the Veterinary College was held; 
but as we were excluded (and so are all students and practitioners, 
even though “ they would do credit to any university in the 
world”) from an assembly into which a tinker or a chimney¬ 
sweeper, or the veriest blackguard in the streets, would be readily 
admitted, we do not know w hat took place. 
The following extract from the concluding clinical lecture of 
Dr. Elliotson is so applicable to the situation of the veterinary 
student and practitioner at the present time, and is so full of truth 
and excellent advice, that wq select it as the concluding part of 
our leading' article :— 
