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“ In teaching, as well as in the practice of his profession, he had 
the great advantage of being able to apply the principles of Mr. 
Hunter to veterinary science, and to give to the veterinary student 
those physiological views which were very imperfectly known either 
in our own or foreign countries. 
“ His reading was not extensive, and, therefore, his knowledge 
was in a great degree his own, excepting that he had learned 
human anatomy from Mr. Cline, and the principles of physiology 
and surgery from Mr. Hunter, and that he always possessed a 
remarkable facility in understanding and applying these matters 
to use. 
“ By his scientific researches and mental energies, the Veterinary 
College attained a degree of usefulness and celebrity which ex- 
ceeded his most sanguine expectations. 
" Under his fostering auspices the progress of the veterinary art 
was such, as to qualify its practitioners to hold commissions in the 
army ; and he had himself the honour to be appointed Veterinary 
Surgeon-General to the British Cavalry, the duties of which post 
he performed with the most laudable fidelity, and with such ad- 
vantage to his country, that the number of horses whose lives were 
saved by his means was immense. 
“ These scientific views, and the high character which he had 
acquired, made him thought worthy of being elected a Fellow 
of the Royal Society, and of several other scientific associations. 
“ In society he was a cheerful and delightful companion, and was 
on terms of intimacy with Jenner, Woodville, Cooke, Wells, 
Babington, Abernethy, Clarke and his brother Sir Charles Clarke, 
Sir F. Chantrey, Sir C. Bell, Sir B. Brodie, Mr. J. H. Green, 
and Drs. Bright, Paris, Crawford (the author of the work on 
Animal Heat), and many other choice spirits and intellectual per- 
sons. Whatever is a man’s pursuit in life, it is knowledge and moral 
character which give him his real rank and position ; and in pro- 
portion as he possesses these, so will he be welcomed in society, 
respected and beloved. 
“ In old age, Mr. Coleman became afflicted with the gout. His 
liver also was diseased — his stomach weakened — and he died at 
the Veterinary College, on July the 14th, 1839, in the seventy- 
third year of his age, after a life of great gratification and extensive 
