238 TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ASSIST. -PROFESSOR YARNELL. 
gratitude and thanks. No one, I assure you, feels more 
delighted than Mrs. Yarnell does, when she hears of the 
success of the veterinary pupils, or regrets it more when 
fortune’s favours do not smile upon them. 
Ere long many I see around will have to appear before the 
board of examiners, need I say that it is my earnest hope that 
each among you will pass through that ordeal with credit to 
yourselves and also to your teachers. Let me persuade you 
to count the days, and let nothing prevent you from making 
the best use of the short time which is yet left you : short as 
it is, much may be done, if it be well spent and all of us put 
our shoulders well to wheel. To those w r ho have yet a longer 
period to study, I trust you will allow me to advise you 
not to put off “ the evil day” as it is termed, to the last, but 
take time by the forelock, and by perseverance and applica- 
tion, prepare yourselves for the final struggle, and then suc- 
cess will crown your efforts. 
Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you for the honour you 
have done me, and also to assure you that, if I can forward 
your wishes at any time and in any way — if I can by advice 
assist you in any doubtful or difficult case, or promote your 
interest, I shall be most happy to do so. You will pardon me, 
however, if before I sit down, I again allude to the occupation 
of your time when j 7 ou finally leave this institution. Consider 
yourselves even then as students ; go on with your studies ; 
record your cases faithfully, for they will prove useful refe- 
rences ; recollect that two of your teachers are now the pro- 
prietors and editors of the only journal of veterinary literature 
in Great Britain. This journal, I trust, will be found on the 
table of your study, and in each of your homes. And not 
only do I expect that you will read it, but 1 anticipate that 
you will also be contributors to it. The valuable cases you 
will meet with in practice, the knowledge which each of you 
must necessarily accumulate from experience, would be use- 
less to all but yourselves, if it be not given to the profession 
through the medium of the press. Your most valuable cases, 
— cases of novelty and interest, — you will send for publica- 
tion, for the benefit of your professional brethren, now that 
you have a journal conducted by those I have alluded to, 
whom you know, and whom you appreciate. What, I may 
ask, would have been the use of the immense accumula- 
tion of knowledge possessed by that extraordinary man, 
Baron Humboldt, who now numbers his eighty years of age, 
had he not given us his ‘ Cosmos ?’ The same may said of 
hosts of other great and good men. Gentlemen, again accept 
my thanks and best wishes for your welfare. 
