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powers, and soon wears them out ; therefore take recreation, 
but keep it within bounds ; enjoy life, but take care of your 
health ; don’t turn nights into days, for if the mind is to be 
healthy, and capable of doing the work you will require of 
it, the body must be healthy too, and I know of nothing more 
calculated to ruin health than a loss of rest. 
Honour your Sabbath, for it is the choicest gift of Heaven ; 
it is a day of rest, and mind and so keep it ; there is no 
necessity to plod and toil on Sunday ; you must use well the 
six days, and so earn the rest to be enjoyed of the seventh. 
Gentlemen, as I said at the commencement of my remarks, 
you have a noble course in front of you if you only will that 
it shall be so, but recollect success entirely depends upon 
your own exertion and your own efforts ; your teachers may 
labour ever so zealously, they may advise ever so wisely, but 
unless you co-operate it will be labour in vain. You should 
he thinking of repaying your parents for that watchful care 
and that expense which you have cost them ; they have con- 
ducted you till you have reached an age at which you are 
capable of manly improvement; bear in mind their solicitude 
, still continues, and they are anxiously watching how you 
will step these lower rounds of the ladder of life ; you have 
already contracted a great debt of gratitude to them, and you 
cannot do better than to try earnestly to pay off a little — the 
whole you never can — of this debt by making the best possi- 
ble use of those advantages which their goodness has afforded 
you. 
In conclusion, I desire to tender the thanks of myself and 
colleagues to the many professional friends I see around me, 
for their presence here to-day. Gentlemen, you do us and 
our institution much honour ; you encourage us to new 
efforts in the labour before us, and you set a grand and good 
example to the class. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANATOMY AND 
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By George Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
Physiology of the Horse’s Foot. 
(Continued from p . 706.) 
Such is the mode of formation of the hoof, and the part 
played by different portions of the foot in the generation of 
the material of which it is composed. But though these 
