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CORRESPONDENCE. 
It was during a stay in London that I made up my mind t 
pay a visit to the Royal Veterinary College, which is situated i 
College Street, Camden Town, and I cannot say that the fir 
glimpse I got of that institution was favorably impressive, whit* 
perhaps was due to the naturally large ideas one gets of anythin 
that appertains to royalty, and well might we say that a rose bl 
another name is just as sweet. 
The building is a low structure, and has much the appearand 
of the outer walls of an institute where people in this country gu 
free board. It is quite large, covering about a block ; having 
gateway in the center on going through which you get your firs 
favorable impression, as the large square inside is laid out in a 
oval grass plot, fenced in so as to give a goo'd wide gravel driv 
all rouud, which is skirted by the hospital, lecture rooms, offices 
&c., which are situated inside. I inquired of one of the few pei 
sons I saw there if any of the professors were t * be seen, and wa 
directed to the office of Prof. Ax, whom I found busily engager 
in writing. 1 handed him my card, one portion of which he rea< 
twice, seeming hardly able to comprehend the letters “ D.V.S., 
which followed my name, and here it was that I allowed him t> 
take the first trick, by explaining to him how incomprehensible t< 
the average American were the letters “ M.R.C. V.S.,” which fol 
lowed the names of their graduates, showing too that in hiero 
glyphics, they went us two better. He asked me if I wished t( 
see the college, and on my answering in the affirmative, he securer 
guide in one of the students, asking me to return to hit 
as he would like to have a talk with me. Our first visit wa: 
maoe to the hospital for horses, the whole of which is situated oi 
the ground floor, passing from there to the dissecting room, when 
the smallness of the half dozen tables impressed me, and M.bou 
which I expressed surprise, and which was not lessened when in 
formed that they only dissected donkeys; here I felt like making 
a jocular allusion, but thinking perhaps it might hurt rny friend’t 
feelings I refrained from doing so. Our next turn was through 
several small lecture rooms, which seemed set apart for the lecture 
on some particular subject. There was a reading room for student^ 
with the different professional periodicals laying on a large table. 
