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day. Mr. Sewell had given his principal attention to the prac¬ 
tical part of the profession. The students would bear witness to 
the valuable information which they derived from him, and he 
would testify to the able assistance rendered by that gentleman at 
the examiners’ board. 
Mr. Curtis returned thanks in behalf of Mr. Sewell, assuring 
us that only such a cause could occasion the Assistant-professor’s 
absence. 
The health of Mr. Vines was next drunk, who was now act¬ 
ing as an efficient and indefatigable demonstrator. The Chair¬ 
man knew of no office more important, and he was assured that 
the pupils would justly estimate the services rendered by Mr. 
Vines. 
Mr. Vines professed his zeal for the improvement of the pupil, 
and the pleasure which it gave him when he was enabled to con¬ 
tribute to it. 
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“ The other veterinary schools” was then given, particularly 
Mr. Dick’s in Edinburgh, and Mr. Youatt’s ; and, in intro¬ 
ducing the toast, the Chairman dilated on the necessity of con¬ 
ducting these schools on liberal and honourable principles. 
Mr. Youatt returned thanks. He had not the happiness to 
enjoy the patronage under which Mr. Dick appeared. His hum¬ 
ble lectures were attempted under no patronage at all—attempted 
under peculiar disadvantages, with regard to the most prominent 
of which, however, the fault lay not with him; but he trusted 
that they, like the lectures of Mr. Dick, were, and ever would 
be, conducted on those honourable principles which the Chair¬ 
man liad very properly advocated. His were not lectures of 
opposition : they were merely subsidiary. He was attempting 
to fill up a chasm which had too long existed in the education of 
the veterinary pupil; and he would venture to predict that the 
time was not far distant when the instruction delivered to the 
pupil would embrace the anatomy and diseases of every animal 
on which he might be called to practise. Reason and justice 
demanded this. When this was accomplished, he would wil¬ 
lingly give way to better men; yet, considering the peculiar 
circumstances under w r hich he acted, he might be forgiven if he 
publicly declared, that he would be then, and w r as now, willing 
