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further recommend you to avail yourselves of the extensive 
and valuable library of the Veterinary Medical Association ; 
and to enrol yourselves as members of that society. Its 
meetings are held weekly, and have many advantages. You 
there meet together in a free and friendly arena ; questions 
are asked, and notes are compared ; useful information, the 
result of varied experience, is brought together from many 
quarters ; the power of public speaking is cultivated ; the 
liberality of imparting valuable information to others is in- 
dulged; science, good feeling, and freedom, are here all com- 
bined and made to support each other. Once acquire the 
habit of diligently attending these weekly discussions, and 
you will find them your happiest evenings, and look back to 
them with wistful sentiments in after life. 
As to the lectures, you will of course be regular in your 
attendance in this theatre, and follow your teachers quietly, 
wakefully, and continuously, as each endeavours to place his 
respective subject before you. I would recommend you 
rather to take short notes, and read up the subject afterwards, 
than to endeavour to make pretty books of lectures by an 
attempt to report them in full. 
Professor Simonds will deliver the lectures on the Diseases 
of all Domesticated Animals, excepting the horse. Professor 
Morton, those on Chemistry, and Materia Medica. Assistant- 
Professor Varnell will lecture on the Anatomy and Physiology 
of the Horse ; and my own lectures will embrace the same 
general subjects of Anatomy and Physiology as heretofore, with 
Veterinary Jurisprudence and the principles of Shoeing. 
Mr. Corby will give the Demonstrations and also practically 
assist you in your dissections. 
And now, my friends, allow me to repeat that I am glad 
to see you all here to-day. May health await you, as an 
indispensable means for the prosecution of your duties. May 
unanimity weave its golden chain about our profession ; and 
no rude hand meddle with the beauty of her work. 
I began this address with an attempt to demonstrate to you, 
that, the moral elements of man are the true conditions of his 
success. I end it with the same assertion. So long as good 
feeling spreads her banner around us, I have no fear for the 
future. 
Let us keep our eyes fixed on the importance of our duties, 
and open them to the brightness of the light of experimental 
science. Let us maintain our hearts’ best affection towards 
each other, and extend our tenderness and sympathy to our 
dumb patients. Let us regard our calling in its widest 
relationship to the promotion of the national wealth ; and 
