234 TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ASSIST. -PROFESSOR VARNELL. 
correct diagnosis of many of our cases, and with that accuracy 
and correctness which astonish the common farrier. This 
knowledge places us upon a pinnacle, the height of which he 
can never hope to attain. It is also by an intimate acquain- 
tance with anatomy, that we are enabled to perform those 
surgical operations belonging to the practice of our profes- 
sion, with such neatness and precision, that even the educated 
man looks upon us with respect. If all this be true, and no 
one I think can doubt it, then, because anatomy is the founda- 
tion of our science, he who neglects its requirements, neglects 
the possession of a good foundation to build his reputation 
upon. Let his other qualities be what they may, he will 
surely fail. If such, I again repeat, is the case, ought we not 
to be thankful that we have a gentleman like our assistant- 
professor and demonstrator, who is in every way so eminently 
qualified to instruct us, and point out the way in which we 
should proceed in order to become well acquainted w r ith this 
most essential, and, perhaps, difficult branch of our art. I 
am sure you will agree with me when I say we ought, and I 
am equally sure you will agree with me when I say we are. 
ft is always a pleasure to see a subject come upon the table 
after it as been under the scientific touch, if I may so express 
it, of Mr. Yarnell, and the simple and easy manner with which 
that gentleman endeavours to instil into our minds the dif- 
ferent construction and relations of parts is equally admirable. 
But, gentlemen, these observations will equally apply to our 
other talented teachers, and respected professors, who are 
endeavouring, by their unceasing exertion, to impregnate 
our minds with those scientific principles which will I trust 
make us ornaments of our profession. I am sure it will 
give them pleasure to hear of our future welfare, and I there- 
fore take this oportunity of thanking them in all our names 
for their united efforts in our behalf. To return, Mr. Varnell 
is, as you are well aware, ever ready to assist us in the 
search of information, and he takes a delight in explaining to 
us, in his clear and straightforward manner, the several ques- 
tions which we are in the daily habit of submitting to him. 
I can conceive of nothing more laborious than to be a teacher 
to a large number of pupils, and to be day after day consulted 
by first one and then another about the same thing. If it is 
at all irksome for us to learn that which is for our future 
good, what must it be to one who is so well acquainted with 
anatomy as Mr. Yarnell is, to be continually explaining and de- 
monstrating the same thing, day after day, and year after year. 
Gentlemen, I might go on at much greater length enume- 
rating the several good qualities of Mr. Varnell, but they are 
