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drink “ The health of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, 
and prosperity to them,” which, having been duly honoured by 
thfe company, 
Mr. Lee, of Dover-street, rose to return thanks. Professor Dick, 
he said, had alluded to the benefits conferred upon the Veterinary 
College by the College of Surgeons. However great those bene- 
fits were, the College of Surgeons had also to acknowledge many 
benefits derived from the Royal Veterinary College. If we looked 
at the chief physiological discoveries that had taken place during 
the last half century, we found that the experiments that tended 
most to their elucidation had been connected with veterinary 
science, and, in England, had generally been performed at the Vete- 
rinary College. If it was evident that a debt of science was still 
due from the Veterinary College to the other medical institutions of 
the country, he might congratulate the members of the veterinary 
profession that they were now placed upon that equal and scientific 
ground which would not only enable them to proceed, unassisted, 
in the development of veterinary knowledge, but would enable 
them, by their contributions to science, to repay any debt which 
might have been contracted during the infancy of their institution. 
We might anticipate, henceforth, that the veterinary surgeon would 
become the rival of those who had preceded him in the investiga- 
tion of the general principles of health and disease, and would not 
only advance his own profession, but would, in so doing, also ad- 
vance the corresponding branches of science in human medicine 
and surgery. As the different professions, which had the same com- 
mon object, were so closely united upon scientific grounds, every 
advance in one must, necessarily, be sooner or later felt by all ; 
and, therefore, the prosperity of the veterinary profession could not 
be an object of indifference to any one who wished well to the general 
advance of medical knowledge. With these impressions, therefore, 
he could not propose a toast more consonant to the feelings of all 
who were interested in the present proceedings, than the health of 
the gentleman who had on this day been elected to fill the very re- 
sponsible situation of “ President of the Royal College of Veteri- 
nary Surgeons.” 
Mr. Turner then rose, and said that he felt most grateful for the 
manner in which his health had been drunk by the company. He 
