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THE VARNELL TESTIMONIAL. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian.” 
Sir, — T he students of the Royal Veterinary College having 
lately taken an opportunity of exhibiting the high estimation 
in which they hold their talented Anatomical Demonstrator, 
G. W. Varnell, Esq., and feeling that the account of so inte- 
resting an occurrence cannot fail to be acceptable to a large 
class of your readers, I make no apology for requesting the in- 
sertion of the particulars thereof in the forthcoming number of 
your valuable Periodical. 
The mode adopted by the students for acknowledging, in 
some degree, the sense they entertain of the able and inde- 
fatigable exertions of Mr. Varnell, in imparting instruction to 
them in that scientific branch of their education over which he 
presides, was by the presentation to that gentleman of a testi- 
monial, consisting of a beautiful Microscope, manufactured by 
the celebrated makers, Messrs. Powell and Leiiand, expressly 
for the occasion. 
The presentation took place on Saturday evening, the 26th 
of April last, in the Theatre of the College, in the presence of 
the Professors and Students of the Institution. 
The arrangements for carrying out the wishes of the sub- 
scribers were confided to a committee consisting of the following 
gentlemen, all students of the Royal Veterinary College 
Chairman. — Mr. Chas. Steel. 
Committee . 
Mr. T. Hart 
— T. Greenhill 
— C. V. Payne 
Mr. J. Carless 
— J. Churchill 
— J. H. Carter. 
Treasurer. — Mr. M. Clancy. 
Secretary. — Mr. Robert Moorhead. 
The anxious duty of delivering the Testimonial into the hands 
of Mr. Varnell, and of giving expression to the feelings by which 
the subscribers were animated, devolved on Mr. Chas. Steel, of 
Norwich, Chairman of the Committee ; and the manner in which 
he acquitted himself of his difficult but honourable task excited 
the admiration of all present. 
Mr. Varnell, who at the commencement of his reply was 
visibly affected, expressed the deep sense he entertained of the 
