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PRESENTATION OF PLATE 
under-Line, and who travels to the metropolis that he may he 
present at the last meeting of the London Veterinary Medical 
Society, has promised to prolong his stay amongst us, and to 
produce and to defend, on Tuesday the 4th of April, an essay on 
a very important subject, “ The comparative Advantage of 
Setoning and Firing.” Connected with our practice, whether in 
town or country, there can scarcely be a more interesting inquiry ; 
and we do trust that, for his own sake as well as in compliment 
to the zeal of our Staffordshire friend, every member of the Asso- 
ciation in the metropolis or its vicinity will endeavour to be 
found at his post on that night. 
It is probably known to many of our readers that Professor 
Coleman has lately been seriously indisposed. Acute pneumo- 
nia supervened on a severe attack of the gout, and, for some 
days, the result was doubtful. They will be gratified to hear 
that he is now considerably better. His medical friends, how- 
ever, have urged him not to attempt to lecture for two or three 
months to come ; but, as soon as the weather will permit, to 
journey towards the coast. We understand that arrangements 
have been made for the Assistant Professor to occupy, during that 
time, the chair of the principal ; and that, probably, the aid of Mr. 
Spooner will be given in the anatomical department. Some plan 
of this kind should have been long ago adopted. All his friends 
and pupils have deeply lamented the frequent illness of the Pro- 
fessor ; but the lectures and examinations should not have been 
so often and so long suspended. The first is a serious and irre- 
parable loss — the second has frequently been productive of very 
material inconvenience. Both the Professors will discharge an 
imperative duty by securing, in future, the just expectations and 
claims of the students from the possibility of injury. Y. 
PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO MR. SPOONER. 
At a general meeting of the pupils of Mr. Spooner, Lec- 
turer on Veterinary Anatomy, &c., held in the theatre of that 
gentleman, Nov. 25th, 1836, it was unanimously resolved, “ That 
