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language the feelings of the class. Mr. Morton, evidently 
affected, declared that “ the happiest moment of his life was 
when he found that his humble exertions were approved by his 
pupils. Their present was a munificent one, but it was most 
valuable as an expression of their regard whose interest he had 
most at heart. They might believe him that it would be a sti- 
mulus to renewed and greater exertion, and would ever bind 
him to theircause.” We would not have these tokens of appro- 
bation and regard made too cheap. There is a sacredness about 
them which should not be profaned : but knowing from the best 
of all sources the ardour with which Mr. Morton devotes himself 
to the discharge of his duty, we congratulate him on this de- 
served reward of his labours, and we congratulate his class on 
the good sense and the good feeling which induced them to pre- 
sent it. 
On the 17th inst., after a dinner at Freemasons’ Hall, a silver 
breakfast service, value 100 guineas, was presented to Mr. Sewell 
by the members of the London Veterinary Medical Society. 
Professor Coleman was in the chair, the Assistant Professor 
being on his right hand. They were supported by Drs. Paris 
and Spurgin, Messrs. Green and Travers, and some personal 
friends of Mr. Sewell. 
Among the veterinary surgeons we observed Messrs. Bardell, 
Battersbee, Cheeseman, Ferguson, T. Harrison, Jumpson, Mar- 
shall, Nice, Scruby, Sibbald, Silvester, H. Taylor, Titchmarch, 
Wright, and Youatt. About twenty-five pupils were present. 
One of the pleasing circumstances of the day was, after a 
secession of ten or twelve years, the re-appearance of Professor 
Coleman presiding over a veterinary meeting. He was the chair- 
man of the first meeting of this society ; the chairman of its 
after meetings ; and when the anniversary dinner became one of 
the profession generally, and then one of the students, the Pro- 
fessor of the Veterinary College still occupied the chair: it was 
one of the charms of every meeting, and thence, in the opinion of 
every veterinary surgeon with whom we ever conversed on the 
point, he should not have retired, although he did so to give 
place to the first surgeon in Europe. He was the first President 
