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of this Society; and he was once more at the post of duty 
and of honour. 
The customary introductory toasts were given. Perhaps, 
anxious to arrive at the cream of the thing— the object of our 
meeting — some of us thought them somewhat too numerous. 
When proposing “Lord Hill and the Army,” the chairman 
alluded to the grade in society which every competent and well- 
conducted veterinarian was enabled to occupy, on account of the 
rank which the cavalry veterinary surgeons of England held as 
commissioned officers. He exulted in the satisfaction which, ge- 
nerally speaking, they had given to the colonels of their respective 
regiments, and the altered and more effective character of the 
cavalry service. 
Dr. Spurgin returned thanks for the College of Physicians ; 
he spoke of his brethren as anxious for the promotion of science 
in every branch of it. He described his early and long acquaint- 
ance with Mr. Sewell, and the opportunities which had been thus 
afforded him of gaining much valuable physiological information; 
and he acknowledged that to his friend he owed the first di- 
rection of his thoughts to the study of the medical profession. — 
Mr. Travers returned thanks for the College of Surgeons. He 
spoke of the identity of the pursuits of human and veterinary 
surgery, and expressed the gratification which he felt at observing 
the rapidly increasing improvement of the veterinary art. — Mr. 
Green, returning thanks for the Examiners, spoke also of the 
identity of purpose in the two professions, and the important 
service which the veterinary art was now rendering to the elder 
profession by the elucidation of many an interesting point of 
physiology and pathology. He spoke also of the necessity of 
medical practice, whether human or veterinary, being founded on 
science ; then alone it would survive the revolutions of the intel- 
lectual and moral world : it would become immortal. — Mr. Sewell 
as an officer of the East India Company’s establishment, eulo- 
gized the advantages of that service, both as it regarded the rank 
and the pay of the cavalry veterinary surgeons. 
Professor Coleman now proceeded to the essential business of 
the meeting, — the presentation of a service of plate to Mr. Sewell 
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