PRESENTATION OF APPARATUS TO MR. MORTON. 107 
Perhaps some apology on the part of the Secretary is called 
for, on account of his not more quickly conforming to this reso- 
lution. His only grounds of excuse are — and he hopes they will 
be accepted — indifferent health and full occupation. 
W. J. F. Morton, Secretary. 
Royal Veterinary College, 
Feb. 1836. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1, 183f>. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— C iceho. 
We have much pleasure in recording some circumstances 
which have taken place during the last month, in which many 
of our readers will take peculiar interest. Mention was made in 
the Journal for November of Mr. Morton’s useful lectures on 
Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy : a chasm that had too 
long been suffered to remain in the education of the veterinary 
pupil was thus removed. We were sufficiently aware of the 
talent and assiduity of the lecturer, and of the zeal with which 
he devoted himself to the instruction and interest of his class, 
and were assured that his merits were duly appreciated by those 
who had the advantage of attending upon him ; but we knew not 
that his pupils had long before that determined to give him the 
most gratifying proof of the estimation in which they held him. 
At the close of his lecture on the 12th ultimo, Mr. William 
Rush, in the name of the class of the preceding year, presented 
him with a handsome and complete Pneumatic Apparatus. The 
air pump, a double-barrelled one, bore the following inscription : — 
PRESENTED WITH OTHER APPARATUS TO 
W. J. F. MORTON, Esq. 
BY THE PUPILS OF HIS CLASS? 1834-5, 
AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE 
FOR THE BENEFITS DERIVED FROM HIS LECTURES. 
Mr. Rush did full justice to the task assigned to him; his 
address was short, but it was eloquent, for it expressed in simple 
