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future progress of tlie college under his rule, by reference to 
the steps which have already been taken to extend and im¬ 
prove the course of study. First, the members of the vete¬ 
rinary profesion will be gratified to learn that a systematic 
course of instruction in the practical duties of the veterinary 
art has been established. In addition to the daily hospital 
rounds, special clinical demonstrations are held every Tuesday 
and Saturday in the theatre, and particular days set apart for 
operations. Besides which a card, stating the nature of the 
disease from which the animal suffers, with general instruc¬ 
tions as to its management and treatment, is posted up in 
every stall or box, but more especially for those who are 
advanced in their studies. 
In addition also to clinical clerks, dressers, selected from 
the second session pupils, are appointed week by week to 
attend to the patients under the direction of the professor, 
while the oversight of the dissecting-room duties has been 
placed in charge of monitors who act under the assistant- 
professor of anatomy. 
Chemistry, at length, is likewise being taught as an art as 
well as a science. The chemical professor has obtained per¬ 
mission to carry out his own views, and the laboratory has 
been fitted up for the accommodation of a large class of 
students. At present the laboratory work is not compulsory, 
but we learn that over seventy pupils have availed themselves 
of the opportunity thus afforded them of obtaining practical 
knowledge and manipulative skill in a department, the im¬ 
portance of which has not yet been fully recognised by the 
veterinary profession. 
Further changes in the internal arrangements of the 
College are contemplated, and will be discussed at the ad¬ 
journed meeting of the Governors, and among them not the 
least important is the establishment of a summer course of 
instruction, which we may venture to predict will include 
botany, practical pharmacy, the principles of shoeing, as well 
as the performance of operations on the dead subjects, by 
the students. Of the vast importance of these additions to 
the curriculum, particularly the first of them, little need be 
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