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honour in the present number. Here is sufficient ability and 
industry, and accuracy, to accomplish the important purpose to 
which we have alluded. 
There is also another gentleman, of the same name, to whom 
the veterinary student is deeply, unspeakably indebted. He 
also — and we state it with pride — was, for awhile, our pupil, and 
a favourite one too : he would be competent to such a task, and 
we will tell him that many an eye is fixed upon him in earnest 
expectation. 
As to our friend Spooner, of Southampton, it was with no 
slight degree of pleasure that we read, a little while ago, an ac- 
count of his proceedings, of which the following is the sub- 
stance : — 
Literary and Philosophical Society . — “ The members, and a 
highly respectable audience, were much gratified on Tuesday 
evening, by a second lecture on ‘ Animal Mechanics/ by Mr. 
Spooner, which was illustrated by preparations of bones, par- 
ticularly of the horse. After an elaborate notice (in continuation 
of many of his former lectures) of the fore extremities, Mr. S. 
referred to the hind legs, and the nature of the joints, muscles, 
tendons, both in man and animals, and shewed how strikingly 
the principles of mechanics were exhibited in the animal frame. 
He observed that beauty and symmetry in animals are always 
found connected with power and strength. We admire the ele- 
gance of the race-horse ; no other animal possesses so much 
strength in so small a compass in addition to his speed, or is so 
capable of performing so long a journey, or enduring so much 
fatigue. The muscles are generally inserted with a considerable 
sacrifice of mechanical power, in order to obtain quickness of 
action ; but this is more than compensated by the immense 
strength of the living muscle, while there are numerous admi- 
rable contrivances in various parts of the frame to regain and to 
increase that mechanical power, when it can be effected without 
the sacrifice of beauty of form or rapidity of action. Altogether, 
we have seldom heard a lecture of greater interest, or better 
handled ; and it was concluded by an eloquent address on 
the advantages of such investigations. The chairman, J. R. 
