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| The following gentlemen composed it: Dr. Fordyce, 1970 Baillie, Dr. Babington, Dr. Relp, Mr. Cline, Mr. Abernethy, | Mr. A-Cooper: Mr. Home, and Mr. Houlstone. 5 It required Some time before the arrangements could be“. adopted for the reception of pupils, and I understand under, the late regulations, they are admitted for the 5um of Lwenty(5 guineas, and are accommodated in the College with board,| 5 Or otherwise,. according to their own convenience. For this| | Sum they 5ce the practice of the College, and by the liberality| ofthe medical eommittee are admitted, to the lectures of those who compose It, gratis; and in the army the veterinary Sur- geons are advanced to the rank of commissioned officers, by which condescension of the commander in chiefthe regiments of Englizh cavalry, haye, for the first time, obtained the assisStance of gentlemen educated in a way to discharge tbe important duties of their Situation» Annual subscribers of f two guinecas each are permitted to Send two horses to the Col-| lege, to receive medical. assietance, the expence of keeping | being the only charge to which they are Subject. A Subscri- guineas 18 granted the Same advantages, with- || outany further pay to the mstitution.

As I have noticed the publications of M. St. Bel, it may be right to give a list of those of Mr. Coleman, that have fallen under my notice, by the inspection of which the com-

|' Parative talents of these two professors may in some degree be 190 determined. Observationz on the Structure, Economy, and Di- | Seages of the Foot of the Horse, and on the Principles and

| Practice of Shoeing, in 4t0. Also a Pamphlet on the Forma- |) tion and Uses of the natural Frog of the Horse, with a des= y| cription of the patent artificial Frog.| ) L have no hesitation in acknowledging that to neither of

| these gentlemen we are indebted for the best production on | Veterinary Subjects. A work entitled,“The Outlines of the Ve- rinary Art; or the Principles of Medicine," as applied to the knowledge of the structure, functions, and economy of the | 0)49 horse, by Delabere Blaine, I conceive to be the frst in point || ofanerit on this Subject, and nothing can more Strongly mark y the public demand tor a comprehensive work on this Subject, 149 han the numerous editions through which Mr. Taplin's rhap-

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| 109, Sodies and absurdities have passed.

ARIEN! 1 believe L have extended this letter beyond the bounds you SEN usually prescrIbe to zuch inquiries.

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I am, Sir, yours,&c- -/

Westminster, Nov. 8, 1803. VETERINARIUS«