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wlien completed; will vie with any similar building in the 
metropolis. To this is attached a demonstrator's room; 
and a covered enclosure for the slaughtering of animals 
required for dissection; and the making of post-mortem 
examinations of patients dying in the infirmary or pur¬ 
chased for scientific investigations. Great additions are 
also being made to the infirmary by the erection of several 
commodious loose boxes and other suitable buildings, it 
having been found that of late years the accommodation 
afforded to patients was totally inadequate to the number 
sent for admission, Lastly, but not the least in im¬ 
portance, is the erection of a chemical laboratory, with 
a professor^s room attached, it having been rightly deter¬ 
mined that practical chemistry and toxicology shall no 
longer be omitted from the curriculum of instruction. 
These things are a good earnest that other improvements 
will follow, and the college be made in every respect what 
it should be both as a scholastic institution and an hospital 
for animals. We know this to be the wish of the governors, 
and that long since they would have undertaken the im¬ 
provements but for difficulties which have stood in the way. 
Through the kindness of Professor Tuson we give the 
address in extenso in our present number, and to it we beg 
to refer our readers, that they may judge of its merits for 
themselves. It was well delivered, and was listened to 
throughout with marked attention—the silence being alone 
broken at times by the plaudits of the audience. It will 
be seen that it is rich in good suggestions for elevating 
the profession, and no doubt they will have their duo 
weight with those whom they chiefly concern. The pupil 
of to-day is the practitioner of to-morrow, and in both 
capacities he must remember that the dignity of the pro¬ 
fession is in a great measure intrusted to his keeping. It 
is not the respectability of an art which makes the man, 
but the respectability of the man which stamps value and 
dignity on the art he practices. Let this be ever borne in 
mind and all will be well. Enemies will vanish, friends 
be made, and the rightful position of the veterinary pro¬ 
fession be effectually and securely maintained. 
