The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
Hunting -- Dictionaries; Sports -- Dictionaries
After various regulations respecting meetings of council, committees,
and members, it proceeded to state the annual election of a Medical
Experimental Committee, and a Committee of Transaction. The former to
meet occasionally, for the purpose of suggesting and trying experiments,
with a view to throw additional light on the animal œconomy, and to
discover the effects of medicines upon different animals, to be procured
for that particular purpose; and this Committee, from time to time, were
to make reports of their proceedings to the Council. The Committee of
Transaction to be charged with the selection, compilation and
arrangement of the matter for the _annual volume_ of transactions, and
the preparation of a prefatory discourse. This annual volume was
promised to each subscriber _gratis_, in page the eighth of their
original Prospectus, dated 1791; but how _many_ volumes have _appeared_
in the _twelve years_ is not _publicly_ known.
Of the SCHOOL, there shall be a PROFESSOR of Veterinary Medicine, who is
to continue superintendant of the whole. The Professor to be elected at
a general meeting, and to have the sole arrangement and direction of the
studies and occupations of the pupils of the school, of their matter and
order, of the distribution of his lectures, of the number and nature of
the subjects required for dissection. He shall likewise judge of the
kind and quality of the forage to be used in the infirmary; of the
regulation of the cattle therein, and of the remedies to be employed.
The Professor to have a yearly income, or salary, to increase
proportionally with the revenue of the College; but not to exceed a
certain sum _per annum_. There shall be a Clerk to assist the Professor
in keeping his books, and to follow his directions in entering and
registering all the concerns of the school, infirmary, laboratory, and
forge.
RULES respecting the PUPILS were these: Any person desirous of becoming
a resident pupil, must be able to read and write well. The preference
shall be given to such youths as shall have received the elements of a
good education, and more especially to those who have some knowledge of
surgery and pharmacy. Such candidate not being under the age of fifteen
years, nor more than twenty-two, must apply to the Secretary, and
deliver a paper, containing his name, age, and place of abode; and the
Secretary shall refer the same to the next meeting of the Council or
Permanent Committee. The resident pupils to be appointed by the Council,
and to be taken as much as possible from different counties, for the
better and more expeditious dissemination of the art. Each perpetual
member (that is, a subscriber of not less than twenty guineas) to have
the privilege of sending a pupil to attend a complete course of study. A
library shall be annexed to the College, comprehending all such works as
may contribute to enlarge and improve the veterinary science.
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