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the animal. He had studied the horse as carefully as 

 any veterinary surgeon, and rejoiced in a fine animal, 

 such as the Arabian he got from the Duke of Hamilton 

 and petted for years. Speaking of horses one day to 

 Mr. Turner, he said — " I love the horse ; I love the 

 horse/' — laying great stress on the word love, and then 

 added without any pause — " I've dissected him twice." 

 It was a new mode of showing love for a beast, and 

 the remark on this head was a genuine Goodsirian 

 declaration. In March 1849 he presented a cast of the 

 dissection of a horse to the Eoyal Institution in Edin- 

 burgh, and received the thanks of the directors for a 

 work " executed with so much spirit, and capable of 

 being of so much value anatomically to students." 

 His last appearance, in 1866, as president of the 

 annual examination of the candidates for the veterinary 

 diploma was a terrible effort, and each night he returned 

 home quite exhausted ; and this ended in one of his 

 most severe attacks and a prostration of strength for 

 weeks. 



