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most valuable instruction, scientific and practical, we cannot but regard 
other schools with a kindly feeling, and an ardent wish that they may enjoy 
the same benefits. He therefore proposed as a toast, “Prosperity, perman- 
ence, and greater extension of beneficial influence to veterinary schools 
throughout the world/’ 
Mr. Houssmnn returned thanks in the following terms : — Mr. President 
and Gentlemen, it becomes my duty, being a foreigner and a son of the pro- 
fessor of the Royal Veterinary College of Hanover, to take upon myself 
to acknowledge the toast just drunk, and I wish a better acquaintance with the 
English language would enable me to do it greater justice. But, gentle- 
men, 1 throw myself upon your liberality, and beg you will excuse any 
error I may commit. 
As the representative of the school of Hanover, I stand up to return 
thanks for your good wishes towards the whole, and I feel highly gratified 
and proud for the compliment you have been pleased to pass onus. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, humbly and sincerely, in their names and 
my own, I thank you for the honour you have done us this evening ; and 
earnestly wish, what I know to be the desire of every right-minded member 
of the profession, namely, that success and increased prosperity may ever 
attend the Royal Veterinary College of St. Pancras. 
The health of “The veterinary authors to whom the profession has been 
so much indebted” was now proposed and drunk ; after which 
Mr. Morton rose, and said, it has fallen to the lot of the last and the least in 
importance of the veterinary authors to acknowledge the compliment just paid 
to them. 
I rise with much diffidence to do so, because I see around me those to whom 
veterinary science is so much indebted, and who are far more able than my - 
self to do justice to it. On my right is Professor Coleman, whom we are 
delighted to see amongst us this evening. He could have responded with 
eloquence ; but it would have been unkind to have called upon him, after 
the exertions of this day. On my left is Mr. Youatt ; from him also would 
you have received a reply with which every veterinary author would have 
been both pleased and satisfied. I do know, however, that you will soon 
have from him his sentiments, and therefore I must be content, in the name 
and on the behalf of the many veterinary writers, to assure you that we feel 
honoured by your kind remembrance of us. It is true that I am not a mem- 
ber of the profession, but I am bound up with it. I rise with its advance- 
ment, and should he disgraced by its fall. Having filled during many 
years an office at the College, and opportunities having been afforded me, 
I thought I might contribute something to the general stock. Of this hand- 
some mention has been made by the President, for which I sincerely thank 
him. My little work is not, perhaps, what it ought and might have been, 
and possibly many are disappointed ; but I will venture to express a hope, 
that every attempt, however feeble, that leads to another attempt, will l>e 
considered a step and an advancement. 
Mr. Youatt next rose. The toast he was about to propose, he said, was 
a most serious one, yet in many points of view it would well harmonize with 
the humorous song that had just been sung. It was a toast which he 
claimed the privilege of giving. There were others to whose business and 
bosoms it would come as home as to his own, but there were reasons why 
he should be permitted to propose that toast. He meant to give “The 
veterinary students.” There were four gentlemen present, who were 
teachers, who had felt the endearing tie that existed between them and their 
pupils. It was not precisely the relation between parent and child, but it 
approximated closely to it. There was — there at least ought to be — no 
