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continue in harmony, good fellowship, and feeling, with the re- 
spective Professors of the two schools of education, that of London 
and Edinburgh. 
We are now in a situation to petition for the exemptions and 
privileges which other professional bodies enjoy ; and I do noo hesi- 
tate to say that we shall obtain them. 
The day has arrived, Gentlemen, when we must look a-head 
and keep a-head ; for in the course of a few years we shall see, 
after the German plan, agricultural schools established throughout 
England, where every branch of knowledge bearing upon stock 
and the cultivation of the soil will be taught: unless, therefore, 
the student receives a thorough course of education, he will not and 
cannot retain his position in society. 
I will just touch upon one other subject on which I know that 
some parties feel keenly, as I may not have another opportunity of 
expressing my feelings upon it; and that has regard to the Board 
of Examiners. Whenever it is formed, I do hope there will be as- 
sociated with its veterinary members some of those eminent indivi- 
duals who belong to a body to whom we owe an everlasting debt 
of gratitude, and who have hitherto effected so much for our art. 
They add influence, weight, and dignity, to any class of individuals 
with which they may be associated. T beg leave once more to 
return you my thanks, and wish each and all of you health and 
prosperity. 
Hie Chairman then rose, and said he hoped the company were 
not yet tired of seeing him on his legs, for he had a toast to 
propose : it was the health of their newly appointed councillor 
Mr. Field, and the rest of the body corporate. He could only 
say that the election of that council has given him the greatest 
satisfaction. He had classed Mr. Field with the council, as during 
the struggle for the Charter he had not found any man who had 
come forward more handsomely with money, or who had acted 
throughout in a more generous and manly way, and who had been 
always ready to sacrifice his time, which, upon occasions, was in- 
finitely more precious. In the services he had rendered them he 
was without a rival, more especially in the power he had, from his 
peculiar position, of representing in certain quarters what they 
wished to have done. He (the Chairman) was sure that he should 
