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THE YOUATT TESTIMONIAL. 
ments were entered upon, and the Testimonial_>vas presented. The 
company was not numerous, but there were those present who had 
known Mr. Youatt for many a year ; whose acquaintance with him 
had gradually ripened into friendship, who had watched his zeal 
for the onward progress of the profession, and the more they knew 
of him, the more they saw cause to admire him. He had long 
stood foremost, and occasionally almost alone, in the contest for the 
advance of veterinary science. The storm of conflicting opinions 
had raged around, but he was firm and undismayed. Like the 
knotted oak of his native soil, the blasts which passed over him 
only served to confirm him in every good purpose, and root him 
more firmly in the affections of his friends. His were 
“ The still and mental parts, — 
That do contrive how many hands shall strike, 
When fitness calls them on.” 
Mr. Percivall was to have presided, but domestic affliction pre- 
vented him ; the Chair was therefore filled by Mr. Turner, who was 
supported on his right and left by Mr. Youatt, Professors Dick and 
Spooner, Messrs. Braby, Cheesman, Daws, Dickins, Easton, J. Field, 
W. Field, Henderson, King, jun., Marshall, Mayer, sen., Silvester, 
Simonds, Wardle, Woodger, many gentlemen not members of the 
veterinary profession, and the Secretary. An excellent dinner was 
served up in Mr. Cuff s best style, after which several ladies were 
introduced, for whom a platform had been raised. The national 
toasts having been drunk with all due honours, and the Dinner Ser- 
vice placed opposite to Mr. Youatt, 
Mr. Field arose, and thus addressed the meeting: — 
Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen, — It has been, I think, correctly 
affirmed, that the progress of a science is in proportion to the ad- 
vancement of its literature, whether we regard the latter as the 
parent or the offspring of the science itself. 
In the advanced state of an art, the collective labours, the un- 
asked contributions of the valuable records of its members, are the 
never-failing source of an ample supply of information; but, in the 
earlier period, or as it may be termed, the boyhood of an art, the 
supply does not flow so abundantly; and hence the labours of him 
who has undertaken the onerous duties of an editor become won- 
derfully, I may say fearfully, increased. 
Although a few works of considerable merit had, from time to 
time, appeared, treating more particularly of the structure and 
functions of parts, and only generally of disease, there still was 
wanting some work which should be the vehicle of more precise, 
particular, and practical information in pathology ; and it was not 
until the year 1828, when the first volume of The VETERINARIAN 
appeared, that this desideratum was supplied; and all who felt 
anxiously for the amelioration of the veterinary art pronounced it 
one of the most important steps to advancement that had been taken 
