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utterly impossible for those who may be governed by interested 
views or malignant feelings to arrest for a moment the progress 
and the triumph of veterinary science. 
The introductory lecture will be delivered by Professor Sewell, 
in the Theatre of the College, at twelve o’clock. 
May the Editor be permitted to add, that at half past one o’clock 
he will be happy to see every veterinary surgeon, whether from 
town or country, to partake of a plain luncheon 1 He would not 
have dared to solicit this honour if he had not been for twelve long 
years a debtor to those by whom The Veterinarian has been 
fed and nourished, and if that debt of gratitude had not been lately 
increased by the valued testimony of their kindly feelings towards 
him which he has lately received. Every practitioner, whether 
or not the Editor has had the honour of being previously acquainted 
with him, or to have lately seen him, is included in this invitation. 
Mr. Morton’s oration at the commencement of the third session 
of the Veterinary Medical Association will not be delivered until 
five o’clock ; so that there are two or three hours which may be 
happily spent, and our communings with each other may be pro- 
ductive of much good. 
At five o’clock Mr. Morton’s oration will attract us to Free- 
masons’ Hall. No special invitation is needed to ensure our at- 
tendance there, nor to induce us to be present at the Third Anni- 
versary Dinner of the Veterinary Medical Association, which will 
follow at six o’clock. 
This will be a busy, and, we trust, a happy day. In these inter- 
communications with each other, the feelings and the hopes of each 
will be freely expressed ; and that bond of union may be established, 
and that triumphant progress of our art commenced and assured, 
which will cause this day to be regarded as one of the most import- 
ant and the. happiest of our lives. 
On the following day Assistant-Professor Spooner will com- 
mence his invaluable course of lectures on the anatomy and phy- 
siology of all domesticated animals, and also his superintendence 
of the dissections of the pupils. The proper discharge of these 
arduous duties will require no slight degree of labour and self- 
devotion; but they are suited to the talents and habits of the man. 
Mr. Barthe, whose peculiar neatness of dissection, and accurate 
delineation of anatomical subjects, are well known to all his fellow- 
