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museum and library. An extensive series of calculi of large size 
and varied composition, together with numerous remarkable 
specimens, showing the results of disease in the domesticated 
animals, and including several of unusual occurrence, such 
as ossifications of the brain, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, &c., 
were supplied from the museum of the Royal Veterinary 
College, and the private collection of the President. A 
minutely dissected preparation of the nerves of the horse’s 
heart was forwarded by .Dr. Lee. 
Portfolios of pathological drawings were brought by Pro- 
fessors Spooner and Simonds, and the President. Mr. James 
Turner suspended in the library tablets containing an account 
of some new c< Pathological Facts” connected with tetanus, 
as disclosed by the scalpel, and “ Physiological Experiments” 
resulting from the removal of both carotid arteries and jugular 
veins of a horse. 
We have appended copies of these tablets to this report, 
deeming them of worth to the profession, and to merit more 
than a mere ephemeral existence. 
Several articles of vertu, with busts of Professor Faraday, 
and Dr. Babington, and carvings in ivory from statues by 
Chantrey, reduced by Mr. Cheverton, also ornamented the 
rooms. The bust of the late Professor Coleman, with cases 
of electrotype medals, were contributed by Mr. Braby. 
The decorations were completed by several beautiful exotic 
and other rare plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens. 
The histories of the calculi were given by the President, in 
whose practice most of them had occurred. The highly 
interesting illustrations of minute anatomy by the micro- 
scope, and photographic anatomical drawings by the stereo- 
scope, were explained by Professor Simonds; while the 
chemicals and articles of materia medica were described by 
Professor Morton, who also sent specimens of drugs used by 
the native practitioners of India, and others received by him 
from veterinary surgeons in the Honorable East India Com- 
pany’s Service. 
Refreshments on the most liberal scale were supplied by 
Messrs Gunter, and gave very general satisfaction. 
The following gentlemen accepted the invitation, most of 
whom were present during the evening. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Hamilton, Bart. ; Sir Robert 
Peel, M.P., Bart.; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., F.R.S.; Sir 
Edwin Landseer, R.A. ; Hon. A. F. Kinnaird, M.P.; Sir 
Peter Laurie ; Sir James Tyler. 
Reverends — R. Bush, H. Sandham, M.A., and R. Burrow. 
Professors — W. T. Brande, F.R.S., M. Faraday, F.R.S., 
