OF TIT E VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
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associate was moved. Mr. Sewell immediately rose. He said, 
u that as president of that society it was his duty, and he felt it 
to be so, to maintain the honour of that society. He trusted that 
it was as dear to him as his own. It would be compromised if 
a person who had so flagrantly insulted the society at a former 
period, who had since availed himself of every opportunity to 
do so, and whose recent conduct so plainly exhibited a similar 
spirit — the honour of the society” he said, “ would be irrepara- 
bly compromised, and its power of being useful for ever marred, 
if that person was again admitted into it, until he had made 
an apology so unequivocally and so strongly worded as to be a 
kind of guarantee that such conduct would never again be 
repeated. He saw what the result of the motion would be; but 
such degradation should never fall on the society while he held 
the chair : therefore, with sincere regret, and with unfeigned 
thanks for the kindness with which they had supported him for 
more than twenty years, he now retired from among them.” 
He rose, and quitted the theatre. 
Mr. Spooner expressed his full approbation of every senti 
ment the president had uttered ; and as he could no longer, with 
satisfaction to himself or profit to them, continue to act as their, 
vice-president, he also, thanking them for the kind support he 
had ever received from them, must bid them adieu. 
Mr. Morton, before he followed his colleagues, and now pro- 
bably addressing the society for the last time, begged to be per- 
mitted to say a few words. It was his pride to have devoted 
himself to their service ; he found the library possessing a scanty 
supply of books, and in a most dilapidated state ; he left it 
containing almost every book that could be useful to the student, 
and an honour to any society. He had introduced that best 
stimulus to exertion, that which had been the parent of so many 
valuable papers, the award of the thanks of the society to the 
authors of those papers which possessed more than usual 
merit; and from him had proceeded the election, as honorary 
associates, of their teachers, or those who by their w’ritings had 
promoted the improvement and advancement of the veterinary art. 
He could not separate himself from those with whom he had so 
long acted, and he, too, must retire. 
Much stormy discussion then followed ; after which a vote of 
thanks was passed to the retired officers, and a deputation was 
appointed to wait on Mr. Coleman, to request his advice as to 
the course they ought to pursue. 
The deputation did accordingly wait upon him. Mr. Coleman 
eulogized the pupils for their manly and independent conduct ; 
but, at the same time, he regretted the resignation of Messrs. 
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