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which actuated some of those who took an active part in the late 
dissensions; but he lamented, and he believed in common w’ith 
every well-feeling man, the pertinacity with which they adhered 
to a cause which their consciences must tell them was radically 
bad. The hope of the error being retrieved continuing to 
diminish, and having almost or quite vanished, it was time for 
those who had at heart the welfare of the veterinary profession, 
to bestir themselves, and to see that the cause of the student and 
the art generally should suffer no detriment. 
The deep feeling of this had brought together the present 
assembly ; he was glad to see so many respectable practitioners ; 
it was a pledge of the propriety of the course they were pursuing 
— a pledge of ultimate success. 
Certain resolutions would be proposed to them as the ground- 
work of a new Association. He had no doubt that they would 
receive serious deliberation ; and that the principles that would 
guide the consideration of the gentlemen now assembled, would 
be, the preservation to the student of all the advantages and 
means of improvement, and great they were, which he enjoyed 
in the former society — the amalgamation with these of still 
superior ones to be derived from the presence and expression of 
free opinion and delineation of practice, by the older members of 
the profession residing in the metropolis, or occasionally visiting 
the Association— and the assurance that these meetings would be 
honestly and zealously devoted to the advancement of their art, 
and could never again be disgraced by violence and ruffianism. 
He was convinced that he had no occasion to say more ; and 
would conclude by requesting the Secretary to read the resolu- 
tions, which he would put seriatim to the Meeting. 
Mr. Morton, after having produced a pile of letters which he 
had lately received from practitioners residing in the metropolis, 
and various parts of the kingdom, stating their hearty approval 
of the plan hinted at in the last Veterinarian, and their 
anxious wish to become members of the projected society, and 
shewing that the number of those that were friendly to the 
establishment of the new society was far more than doubled, 
since the last mention of the subject in this periodical, 
