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Communications and Cases. 
ON THE APPOINTMENT OF VETERINARY 
SURGEONS IN THE ARMY. 
By W. J. Goodwin, M.R.C.S. and V.S., Hampton Court. 
Dear Sirs, —In Professor Simonds* introductory address, 
it is stated that the profession is indebted to the late Pro¬ 
fessor Coleman for having obtained commissions in the army. 
Now, the first appointments in the army were made under war- 
rant only, and it was not until the late Professor Peall and 
others applied to the Commander-in-chief that commissions 
were granted. Mr. Coleman did not forward the application , 
and the applicants were not even informed by him of their 
success until several appointments had been made. 
I have often heard Professor Peall and also the late Mr. 
Richard Lawrence relate the circumstances, and inveigh 
against the indignity a professional man might have encoun¬ 
tered under the warrant, in the shape of corporal punishment. 
In the complimentary remarks, towards Principal Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeon, Mr. Wilkinson, for his exertions in the im¬ 
provement of the condition of the army veterinary surgeon. I 
wish that the professor could have added, and for his efforts to 
obtain that privilege which our corporate body ought to have en¬ 
joyed long since, viz., that army appointments should be 
obtainable only by members of the Royal College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons. This, sooner or later, with or without his 
influence, must be the result, and for it we are all anxiously 
looking. 
I am, dear Sirs, 
Yours, &c. 
To the Editors of ‘ The Veterinarianl 
CASES OF FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. 
By T. Hurford, M.R.C.V.S., 12th Lancers. 
I have just seen in the Veterinarian for September a paper 
from Mr. Henderson, on fracture of the Carpus, which brings 
to my remembrance a similar case that occurred some 
