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summer session, and we do not scruple to return to it, 
because we do not doubt that every member of the veterinary 
profession will be interested to know how far the experiment, 
as it may be called, has answered the expectation of those 
who are pledged to conduct it. 
We are glad to be able to state that there is no reason to 
apprehend any failure. All the elements of success, and not 
the least of them, a large and attentive class, are present. 
The students have been prepared to expect that something 
more than the mere act of sitting through an hour’s lecture 
will be exacted of them, and they are not indisposed to per¬ 
form their due share in the work of improvement. 
While every encouragement is offered to the persevering, 
no attempt has been made to conceal the magnitude of the 
work which lies before them. 
Dr. Cobbold in his opening address took a cursory but 
comprehensive glance at science as a whole, showing the con¬ 
nection which exists between every and all the phases of 
human knowledge. His remarks were happily illustrated 
by a diagram representing the universe under the formula of 
the initial letter of Cos?nos; he touched in rapid succession on 
the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. These, again, 
were divided into (organic) animal and vegetable worlds, and 
(inorganic) mineral, aqueous, and aerial, represented by the 
sciences of mineralogy, hydrostatics, and pneumatics. Then 
by a synthetical process the lecturer proceeded to condense 
all the various forms of knowledge into the two sciences of 
biology and abiology, the science of living and the science of 
dead things. 
On the grand stand-point of the universe the lecturer in¬ 
vited the students to rest and survey the whole subject of 
human knowledge without fear. The difficulties which bar 
the student’s progress, he remarked, are chiefly imaginary, 
and disappear in the face of resolute endeavour. Giving all 
honour to birth and position, he nevertheless contended that 
the real difference between one man and another is due to 
the effects of cultivation on his mental processes. 
The work of the summer session is now in a state of full 
activity, and if we may judge from the demeanour of the 
