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vseful miscellany, a'very concise account of the hature of the institution in this country, and a brief yet complete view of all the material discoveries of the Veterinary Art, which modern labour and ingenuity have deve ellopped. This review, I design to compress 1909 twelve Successive numbers, and I Shall Vir. Editor, conceive it an inumation of your concurrence, if you insert this communication.

M. St. Bel, driven from his own country in the year 1788, (whether from private embarrassment, or public disorganization, is Dot material) offered his Services to a Society of gentlemen, in consequence of which, the college was instituted, and Some noblemen ofthe highest ien Ww ere appointed managers of the undertaking.

"Vo determine the qualifications of M. St. Bel, for this sSitua-

tion, be was examined by Sir George Baker, and Several other.

medical professors, and was by them considered competent to its duties.

Whether these EE AUE al comparing the merits of M. St. Bel with the ordimary farriers, imagined conzummate skill in the profesSion not necessary to the Success of this new enter- prize, I will not determine; but it is certain, however ingenious he might be in Shgeing, 470 the inferior branches; with the pharmacentie art, Or hat which respects the healing the dis- eases of the NEAT he was wholly unacquainted. In August,

1793, M. St. Bel SEI and it 1s- probable that the fatal event was accelerated by the disappointment he felt.at the Slow pro- gress of the establiShment be conducted.

Whatever might be the extent or deficiency of the talents of this gentleman, the public are in PoSSC5SION of his works, and

„will not fail to aseign them thei ir fit rank. They are the fol- lJowing: An BssSay on the Geometrical Propor 0.2: of Eclipse; DSGUTes ontbe Elements of“ Farriery; The Art oft Shoeing and Diseases of the Feet, and a volume of Posthumous w ID

During the time of this French protessor, a house was taken at Pancras, for the conduct of the inztitution, and he was Succeeded by Mr. Coleman, under whose directions a hand- Some theatre has been prepared, with a museum, and dissecting r00ms, for the use ot the pupils.

It is evident that the Success of Such an establisehment, must In a great degree depend on the patronage and attention it Should receive, not 80 much from mea exalted in their rank as from those learned in medical Science, who were competent to discern aud to iemoyve the deficiencies in the healing art, in thelower orders of SOCIety, to which the care of the most useful animal has been consigned. Consszistenly with this principle, 'a medical committee was appointed, and the names of the members wil] preclude the necessity of making a Single com-

Mment on 1ts talents, E j