152 OPENING OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT TOULOUSE. 
certainty, be placed on a level with other sciences, as it is al¬ 
ready inferior to none in its object.” 
The Prefect then declared the Royal Veterinary School of 
Toulouse to be duly opened. 
We are requested to state, that on Wednesday, the 22 d. inst., 
there will be a dinner of the veterinary profession at the Free¬ 
masons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street. Tickets one guinea each, ■ 
and dinner on the table at half past five o’clock. All gentlemen 
who are disposed to attend this dinner, are requested to signify I 
the same by letter (post paid) to Mr. W. Goodwin, King’s 
Mews, Pimlico, or to Mr. Langworthy, 10, Calthorpe Stieet, 
Gray’s Inn Road, on or before the 18th instant. 
We acknowledge that we were somewhat averse to this meet-1 
ing, because, held at the time at w T hich it is proposed to be held, 
it superseded a dinner of the Veterinary Medical Society, which 
seemed to be, and which ought to have been, the natuial teimi- i 
nation of its annual labours; and because, engaged in the cause 
of veterinary reform, and anxiously watching its piogiess, and 
convinced that all we demand will, and must be, ere long, ob¬ 
tained, we feared lest a mere convivial dinner, without some de¬ 
cisive resolution and plan, might be considered, where we would 
least of all have it be so thought, an indication of the lukewarm¬ 
ness of the profession, or lest a sudden and violent expression of 
feeling, might exasperate those w T ho had too much pouei to 
thwart us, or lest the appearance of disunion or possible alterca¬ 
tion among ourselves, might encourage resistance to our just 
claims. . . 
Yielding, however, with many others, not to the opinion ot a 
majority, but to the ardent wishes of a few spirited and justly- 
esteemed practitioners, we no longer oppose, and shall certainty 
attend on this proposed public dinner; and we would ufge ever) 
veterinarian by whom it can by possibility be accomplished, tc 
meet us there, bringing with him a heartfelt zeal for the respect¬ 
ability of his profession, and a fixed determination to promotel 
and uphold it; and a determination no less fixed, to be guided b)j 
prudence and temperance, and not to disunite those who, by dis 
union alone, can ultimately be defeated. 
