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SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 
haps, it could not be strictly called a public school, yet it 
was a school known well to the profession at large, and to no one 
known by whom it was not highly estimated. Indeed Mr. 
Youatt’s kind and courteous manners endeared him to all who 
were favoured with his acquaintance; while his great professional 
acquirements rendered him the object of their admiration. He 
had laboured long and arduously in the field of veterinary 
science, and he deserved and fully possessed the approbation and 
esteem of his brethren. Mr. Youatt has principally engaged 
himself in the cultivation of a branch of our art which (dis¬ 
creditable as it was even to name it) was not, up to the present 
hour, taught at our Veterinary College; or, in fact, at any other 
place in this metropolis : and for his assiduity and perseverance 
in this neglected field of useful knowledge, the profession were 
bound in strong obligations to him; and he hoped that those 
members who were now present would signify that, in some mea¬ 
sure, by most cordially drinking health and prosperity to him. 
Mr. Youatt in returning thanks, observed, that he had so 
lately addressed the meeting, and the chairman had now been so 
“ going it” with regard to him, that he really knew not what to 
say. He could only offer the excuse for the President which he 
had just made for other culprits—that private friendship (a friend¬ 
ship, however, which was his pride), had somewhat led him 
astray. Feeling, he continued, how unjust it was to the pupil 
and the country that the education of the young veterinary sur¬ 
geon should be confined to one class of domestic animals, al¬ 
though, I acknowledge, the most important one ; and having 
been, from peculiarity of practice for nearly twenty years, per¬ 
haps a little better prepared to embark in such an undertaking 
than some of my brethren, I ventured to attempt a course of in¬ 
struction on the diseases of those animals which our veterinary 
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school had strangely and inexcusably neglected. Of the result 
of this attempt it does not become me to speak, except that my 
pupils, pardoning imperfection of execution for the sake of evi¬ 
dent and ardent zeal, yielded me the kindest and most gratifying 
attention, and have enabled me to say, that in each I have found 
an avowed and an attached friend. Now, however, age begin- 
