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to their industry and the ability of their teachers; and little 
farther was wanting in the veterinary school, but more time for 
the labours of the students. 
He considered the veterinary establishment as a new sera in 
science, and predicted that human anatomy and physiology 
would be more indebted to the Veterinary College, than to any 
other source since the time of John Hunter. Works had been 
produced by veterinary surgeons that would do honour to the 
best anatomists and physiologists, and the public would duly 
appreciate the men who had so materially advanced their 
own art, and contributed to the improvement of general medi¬ 
cine. 
Yes! venerable instructor, kind friend, whose pleasant sto¬ 
ries, and whose valuable precepts, and whose ardent zeal in our 
cause, will long live in our recollection, thy prediction shall be 
fulfilled. Thou has described us, not what we have been, or 
what we are, but what we shall be ; and not only the voice of 
partial kindness but of strict and stern justice shall, ere long, 
acknowledge us, as useful and valued, but still inferior fellow- 
labourers in the cause of medical science. 
The chairman next gave the healths of those Gentlemen 
who had gratuitously admitted the Veterinary Pupils to their 
Theatres and whom he justly described as distinguished 
equally for their attainments and skill, and their zeal for the 
progress of medical knowledge, not only in their own schools, 
but in this inferior, yet promising and valuable branch of the art. 
He particularly adverted to Mr. Brookes, whose talents and 
perseverance, and happy mode of imparting anatomical know¬ 
ledge, he warmly eulogized ; who had collected a museum 
scarcely equalled by any in this or any foreign country, and who 
now, with a high and well deserved reputation, had retired from 
the labours of his profession. 
Mr. Brookes returned thanks. He had never the vanity to 
suppose that he possessed that superior merit which the illus¬ 
trious baronet had kindly attributed to him, and the sincerity 
