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honourable employment can be pursued by a human being than 
the successful devotion of his mind to the development of the 
structure and functions of the animal creation: and when it is 
recollected that, like infants, they want the capacity of com- 
municating the seat or degree of their sufferings, they must 
require much skill and experience for their alleviation. ■ 
On these grounds the philosopher may direct his views to 
the remedy of their diseases, and to an estimate of their in- 
‘Helligence, with the hope of augmenting their docilities, and 
^‘encreasing their enjoyments, and effecting the physical improve- 
ment of the race. , 
^^The foundation of your society I consider a proud and 
triumphant day, both for the interests of science and for the 
advancement of humanity. It will lead to a due reflection on 
‘^the services that animals perfonn; and when man is taught to 
view them as constituting the main part of the aggregate of 
^vitality and feeling, his knowledge will promote their health, 
and his benevolence will protect them from cmelty and oppres- 
sion. And this protection, being the result of that science 
which enlarges the understanding and teaches the heart to com- 
misemte, will more effectually restrain the intemperate sallies 
of human passions, and the infliction of wanton injury, than all 
*‘the eloquence of the pulpit on the penal severities of legislative 
enactment.’’ 
In the list of new honoraiy members we find the names of Sir 
Anthony Carlisle, Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Alexander Crichton, 
Sir Henry Halford, and Sir William Prout; Drs. Ager, Babing- 
ton, Bree, Bright, Clarke, Granville, Heberden, Holland, Macleod, 
Macmichael, Maton,'Scudamore, Sigmond, Southey, and Yeats; 
and Messrs. Abemethy, Alcock, Andrews, Brande, Callaway, 
S. Cooper, Coulson, Farraday, Keate, Key, Mayo, T. Millington, 
^ Pettigrew, Thomas, and Wadd. 
Honoured by alliance with men like these, and still more 
honoured by the kind and flattering sentiments they have ex¬ 
pressed, we feel, and we are persuaded every member of the Veteri- 
nary Medical Society will feel, the corresponding obligation under 
which we are laid. They speak and think of us as acknowledged 
members of the medical profession—as fellow labourers with them 
