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tion of it (I speak with consideration) has exposed them to the 
laugh and censure of their brethren, and can only be excused on 
the principle, that private friendship has rendered them insensible 
to public propriety. When this shall be effected, we shall drink 
with enthusiasm that which we do now with sincerity, “ The 
Royal Veterinary College.’’ 
The Chairman next proposed “ The health of Professor 
Coleman;” and regretted extremely that the Professor was not 
present. He should not enter into any speculations as to the 
cause of his absence. He himself wished the Professor well. 
He knew how highly gifted he was in natural abilities—they were 
above any eulogy of his; and he was quite certain that it would 
be found no easy task to find a man so qualified to replace him. 
He should conclude with wishing the Professor health, long life 
and prosperity. 
To this followed, “Professor Dick, and the Veterinary School 
of Edinburgh.” The Chairman said, that he had not the 
pleasure of Mr. Dick’s personal acquaintance; and that he 
knew but little of his school; but he wished success and 
prosperity to both. The institution of such a school reflected 
high credit upon the Highland Society: it was a measure of 
great national importance ; and he had no doubt that (if the 
country had not already) it would in a short time find it so. 
He could not help remarking, on this occasion, ho\v curious and 
inexplicable it seemed, that while Scotland was affording all this 
encouragement to the practice of our art, Ireland, which every 
body knew to be a country containing many more horses and of 
a more valuable description, there being a vast many hunters and 
some racers—while Scotland, he repeated, was doing this, Ire¬ 
land had, recently, actually abolished their Veterinary School. 
The Dublin Society, who received annually from the British 
House of Commons a grant of three hundred pounds for the pur¬ 
pose of keeping up a Veterinary Professorship, had annihilated 
that appointment, and appropriated the money to some other pur¬ 
pose. This was a singular and curious fact; and one that seem¬ 
ed to call lor some investigation. He would next give 
“Mr. \ouatt, and his Subsidiary School.” Although, per- 
