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and in a material degree led, the opinion of the grand body of 
veterinary practitioners. Their pages teemed with useful matter, 
and gave a new sera to veterinary science. 
The Chairman replied that this expression or rather repetition 
of kind feeling towards them was deeply felt by himself and his 
coadjutor. Their object was, “ The Profession/’ Their course 
had been direct, and undeviating; and they would continue to 
pursue that line of conduct, which could never, indeed, entitle 
them to dictate to their brethren, but would enable them, to 
a very important extent, to express the opinion and feeling of the 
profession at large. 
Mr. Goodwin rose and said—The health of Mr. Youatt as a 
professor has been drank by us all, and there are none among 
us who do not feel anxious for his success in his veterinary 
school. But I trust, sir, you will allow me to give his health a 
second time, with three times three. Without his kind assist¬ 
ance, we probably should not have met here to-night; and you 
are all of you too well aware of the manifold obligations that 
we owe to that gentleman, to require any eulogium on my part 
to induce you to drink “ Health and happiness to our worthy 
Secretary, Mr. Youatt. 
Mr. Turner .— He has been a very post-horse to the profession. 
Mr. Youatt replied, that, if he had been a post-horse, he had 
had wit enough to escape from the service of those, who would 
have visited him with many of the kicks and thumps which 
the poor post-horse endures; and in the service of the masters 
by whom he had lately been employed, he had been well-fed and 
kindly treated—they had given him that most delicious of all 
food, the consciousness of possessing their esteem and friend¬ 
ship. The mark was now pretty nearly out of his mouth, but 
he had still some work in him, and he would show it whenever 
the interests of the profession required it. 
The evening was spent in perfect harmony, and the meeting 
did not break up until a very late hour. Such a meeting speaks 
sufficiently of itself as to the feeling of veterinary practitioners, 
and we will not make a single remark upon it. 
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