298 TESTIMONIAL TO PROFESSOR MORTON. 
that from a gentleman,, one of ourselves, light should issue 
to enlighten the world of science? This college then is 
evidently doing something to promote those high purposes 
for which it was established, and the lustre of the place 
being reflected, gilds us all. As we are all honoured in 
our professor, it is our duty therefore to honour him ; and 
we present our offering as a testimony of our gratitude, 
and as a token of the esteem in which we hold him, and 
the high opinion we entertain of him, — Mr. Professor Morton, 
it is my pleasing duty, on behalf of my brother students 
around me, to present you with this Service of Plate. May 
you long live in honour and happiness, and may God con- 
tinue to give you health and strength, so as to enable you 
for many years to come to discharge the duties of that im- 
portant office which you now so faithfully and efficiently 
occupy. 
Professor Morion , in reply, spoke to the following effect: 
He knew not a more honorable nor a more enviable 
position in which a teacher could be placed, than that in 
which he then stood. Nor was it for the first time with him, 
this being the ninth testimonial he had publicly received from 
the students of the College. When their intention was in- 
timated to him, his conscience asked him what he had done 
to merit this repetition of their kindness? And the only 
reply he could make to it was, that he had endeavoured to 
perform the duties of the situation in which Providence had 
placed him, and they had been pleased to accept the will for 
the performance of the deed. There was, however, one object 
which he had kept steadily in view during the long period 
he had been connected with the Veterinary College; it was 
that of promoting, as far as he was able, the onward march of 
the profession ; and this he always thought could be best 
effected by studying the interests of the students, and aiding 
them in their acquirement of knowledge. On this account 
he had very early attempted to fill up an hiatus which existed 
in their studies. He did not like their having to go from 
“ Dan to Beersheba” to get information on the principles of 
chemistry, as applied to veterinary science, and the medicines 
to be employed by them in their future practice. Nor was it 
consonant with the dignity of the College that it should be 
so, although those teachers who had so freely opened their 
schools to the admittance of the veterinary student, for ever 
merited the thanks of the profession as a body. Humble, 
indeed, and accompanied with some fears as to the results, 
were his beginnings, but he had from the very onset met w ith 
much kindness and encouragement from his pupils. This had 
