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THE VETERINARIAN\ MARCH \, 1829 . 
Licet omnibus, licet etiammihi, dignitatem artis veterinaria: tueri.’*— Cicero. 
ON Wednesday, January the 28th, the annual dinner was given 
by the students of the veterinary college to their professors, and 
the medical teachers on whose lectures they had been permitted 
to attend. ^ ir r,v , , 
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Sir Astley Cooper again did them the honour to preside. He 
was supported by Dr. Babington, and Messrs. Brookes, Hawkins, 
and Mayo. 
We were sorry to see so few veterinary surgeons. Beside the 
professors and assistant demonstrator, we recognized only Messrs. 
J. and W. Field, Langworthy, J. Percivall, J. and T. Turner, 
Woodin, and Youatt. The muster of students was more than 
usually numerous, and their personal appearance, and propriety of 
conduct, elicited from Sir Astley the remark, that he never had the 
pleasure of presiding over a more respectable assembly of young- 
men. 
The introductory toasts having been briefly prefaced in the 
chairman’s happiest style, he proposed the healths of the medical 
teachers. 
x Mr. Mayo expressed the lively interest which he and his 
brethren felt in the advancement of veterinary science; and related 
the pleasure which he had experienced in being lately permitted 
to witness some experiments of Mr. John Field, on the portio dura 
and par vagum* The operations were performed with a celerity 
and precision which would not have discredited the worthy 
chairman. 
Sir Astley next proposed the health of the Professor. He had 
known him forty yearn, and had ever found him a social com¬ 
panion, a warm friend, and a scientific and highly talented man. 
Hehad early distinguished himself by the successful pursuit of phy¬ 
siological enquiry, and a peculiar tact in communicating in^ 
struction; and happy was it for the veterinary world, that lie was 
so early appointed to the situation which he had so long and so 
honourably filled. The improvement which had been effected in 
