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mainly instrumental in obtaining the Charter ; he it is who has, 
night and day, looked to the working of it ; and he is the indivi- 
dual to whom veterinary science and its professors owe a debt 
which both they and it will one day see the common justice of ac- 
knowledging. For the four years veterinary surgeons have been 
incorporated has he sat as their President; and, though no one 
who has had an opportunity of knowing to what trials his mind 
and temper have been subjected during those four years has envied 
him his elevated position, yet has he manfully fought the good 
fight — we hope we may say — out , and still triumphantly pre- 
sides over the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. To say 
nothing of the ability and tact Mr. Turner has displayed on the 
many occasions in which his presidentship has called him into 
office and action — and which coming from us might appear to have 
motive — it may afford some evidence of the amount of time and 
labour he has devoted to his function, when we aver that no board 
of examination has assembled without his presence, nor any coun- 
cil sat — as our “reports” prove — without the chair being occupied 
by himself ; in addition to which we may mention the facts of his 
having enrolled himself as a governor (not a mere member) of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, and lately become a member of the 
Farmers’ Club ; and all, we sincerely and conscientiously believe, 
to the end that he may the better serve the existing interests of 
veterinary science. 
“ Vilius argentum auro, virtutibus aurum.” 
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Sporting Readings. 
“ In former times, when the anatomy of the stag was better (l) 
understood than it is at present, hunters found a small cross-shaped 
bone in the stag’s heart, which possessed many medical virtues, 
but which has not been discovered in the heart of any modern stag. 
That you may form a just estimate of the loss we sustain in not 
being able to discover la croix du cerf, I shall enumerate a tew of 
