66 BANQUET TO PROFESSOR DICK, AT EDINBURGH. 
of the most influential men in the city, and containing the whole 
body of the magistracy, assembled at a public entertainment, to 
express their high opinion of his private and public worth. 
The chairman said that he had attempted to make some calcula- 
tion of the sacrifice of time which Mr. Dick had made in his faithful 
attendance to his public duties ; and he believed that he did not 
exaggerate when he said, that in nearly a thousand occasions in the 
course of each year, his valuable and ready services were required. 
He complimented him on his meritorious exertions to advance the 
cause of science, and especially that of humanity. He referred 
to the unwearied labours of Mr. Dick, to make that noble institu- 
tion, Heriot’s Hospital, what it was intended to be by its benevolent 
founder, — a place of education for the children of decayed freemen; 
and with much feeling he alluded to the manner in which Mr. 
Dick had-devoted himself to the working out of all the kind and 
interesting purposes of the Momingside Lunatic Asylum. He 
finally alluded to his labours in the establishment of another noble 
institution connected with science and with humanity, the Vete- 
rinary School in Clyde Street He was the first, in that part of 
the kingdom, to bring the light of science to bear on a study that 
had long been neglected, — the diseases of the inferior animals. 
Into this wide and comparatively uncultivated field Mr. Dick had 
entered, nearly twenty years ago, with all that zeal and enthusiasm 
which was natural to him, and he had great pleasure in stating 
that his class-room was now crowded. Here, however, he had to 
look to Mr. Dick’s services as connected with the city of Edin- 
burgh, and deeply sensible were they all of the value of those 
services. They would now drink, “Health, long life, and prosperity 
to him.” 
It is pleasing to read of those, and to witness the public estima- 
tion in which some of them are held, who are connected with us 
in the study and practice of a noble art. Their triumphs are ours 
— their honours are in some measure reflected upon us. We make 
no apology for the introduction of this scene. We, too, wish our 
professional brother health, long life, and prosperity ; and, perhaps, 
a little selfishly we add, — but much good would result from the 
accomplishment of that wish, — the devotion of a few of those 
intervals of time which other duties until lately claimed, to the 
support and increasing value of The Veterinarian. 
Y. 
