COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 107 
practise successfully, and has a view to its rational improvement 
and extension, must study comparative anatomy *. 
Perhaps many may consider the above remarks as unnecessary; 
but when I think of the importance of the subject, and the effect 
that is likely to be produced on the minds of veterinary students 
by such a lecture, I cannot, nor will not, mince the matter. 
Mr. Coleman is now u stricken in years/’ having passed the 
grand climacteric of life, and, with the exception of the gout, I 
believe has been free from many of those infirmities which often¬ 
times accompany old age. And though 
Time hath laid his temples bare, 
And chang’d to white his once dark hair, 
yet he possesses, or at least at the period I allude to did possess, 
to the fullest extent, all that the author of the oft quoted “ sana 
mens in corpore sano” could have desired in his most poetic aspi¬ 
rations, sanity of mind; and, as I said before, with the exception 
of the gout, soundness of body. 
Were I to attempt a description of his person, I should com¬ 
mence by tracing the outlines of a man a little below the middle 
stature; his features irregular, yet peculiarly expressive in the 
aggregate of intellectual energy, mingled, at times, with a deal 
of the severity of thought: indeed, I have witnessed so much of 
the latter, as to lead me to suspect that other agents more 
powerful than the love of study, or a passion for physiological 
discovery, had been working there. 
' . The early part of Mr. C/s professional career was devoted with 
ardour to the improvement of the veterinary science. I have 
been told that he had an early predilection for his present pur¬ 
suits : whether that be true or not, I am convinced that they 
must have been entwined with the strongest affections for a long 
time, the very food of his meditations, if I may judge from the 
abilities he possesses. 
; There is an old adage, that €i after the old are gone there 
never comes better.” I believe that there are few in the pro¬ 
fession but will agree with me, that Mr. Coleman’s abilities are 
equal to his situation. I hope that the present assistant professor 
may indue time succeed him in his abilities as well as in his si¬ 
tuation. It certainly must be no small object to him to finish his 
career in that place from whence in the spring tide of youth and 
hope he started into the turbulent scenes of the world—to rule in 
that place where once he served—to succeed to that chair which 
* I have lately seen, with pleasure, the commencement of a Course of 
Lectures, published in The Lancet , on this important branch of Veterinary 
Science, by Professor Grant, at the London University. 
