695 
ANNIVERSARY DINNER 
OF THE 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 
November 20, 1837. 
The regular business of tlie first meeting of the session having been trans- 
acted, the members of the Association and their friends adjourned to ano- 
ther room, where a sumptuous dinner had been provided by the Council, who 
officiated as stewards ; Professor Sewell, the President of the Association, 
occupying the chair. The dinner was served in Mr. Cuff’s best style, and 
the wines were fair. 
The usual toasts, “The Queen,” with the warmest enthusiasm — “ The 
Queen Dowager and Royal Family,” and “ The Army and Navy,” with all 
their customary honours being drunk, the President proposed “The Vete- 
rinary Profession, and the health of Professor Coleman.” Of that profes- 
sion every gentleman present was, or was preparing to become, a member. 
They highly valued it, or they would not have devoted their lives to the 
practice of it. It was worthy of their choice— it was intimately connected 
with the prosperity of the agricultural interests, and those of the country 
generally. The health of Professor Coleman was naturally connected with 
this toast. He had long presided over the English veterinary school ; he 
had been identified with its interests and its progress; and to him its welfare 
and improvement would naturally be dear. 
Professor Coleman . — If I should fail in returning thanks to you in the 
manner I could wish, you must attribute it to the long sermon with which I 
troubled you this morning. I am not, however, so much exhausted as to be 
insensible to the very kind manner in which my health has been proposed by 
the worthy President, and received by you. Highly flattered am I that, after 
being more than forty years the servant and the Professor of the Veterinary 
College, I should still be so much esteemed by my pupils and by the respected 
veterinary practitioners now present. The honour which I have received 
would make any man proud ; and I am truly so. I beg leave to return my 
most grateful thanks for the kindness you have done me, and I wish prospe- 
rity and happiness to you all. 
After a pause the Professor rose again, and begged to be permitted to pro- 
pose a toast which, he trusted, would be drunk in bumpers. “ The Veteri- 
nary Medical Association, and its President success to that institution, 
and success and happiness to my friend Sewell. It would, however, be un- 
just to him and to you if I did not say more. I have wintered and summered 
with that gentleman for nearly forty years, and during the whole of this pe- 
riod have had the opportunity of observing his talents, assiduity, and zeal. 
Other men may have the same qualities, but they do not always succeed ; 
there is something behind which prevents success. His gentlemanly, mild 
manners, however, have been such, that every one that he comes in contact 
with he wins; and he has the good wishes and the good opinion of every 
subscriber. With any other man than him as an ally, I should probably, 
from certain vexatious causes, have long ago retired from public life. In the 
discharge of his collegiate duty he is always at his post ; and having a certain 
convenient window from which he can see every subscriber that enters the 
yard, he is in a moment forthcoming. I, perhaps, have not been in the col- 
lege-yard so much as 1 might or ought to have been. He has always been 
there, and with him alone will many of them have to do. I remember a cer- 
