JTHE 
VETERINARIAN. 
ol. ii. JUNE, 1829. No. is. 
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ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE VETERINARY 
SURGEONS. 
>N Wednesday, April 22d, the first anniversary dinner of the 
3terinary surgeons took place at the Freemasons’ Tavern, 
’rofessor Coleman in the chair. The meeting was very nume- 
)usly and respectably attended, nearly forty practitioners being 
resent. 
After the cloth was withdrawn, and “ The King,” “ The 
>uke of Clarence, President of the Veterinary College,” “ The 
oyal Family,” “ The Duke of Wellington,” and some other 
|»yal toasts, had been drunk, 
Mr. You att rose, to propose “ The Royal Veterinary College.” 
here was no man, he said, possessing the best feelings of hu- 
an nature, who did not recollect with pleasure, mingled with a 
)ecies of reverence, that place whence he derived the in¬ 
ructions which had been useful to him in after-life. At the 
eterinary College we were first taught the maladies of those 
limals, particularly of one, the most interesting of all, who had 
en committed to us to contribute to our convenience and to 
‘joy our protection, but whom, when sickness came, and our 
are was most wanted, the owners had abandoned to the ig- 
^rance and mistreatment of those who were worse than brutes. 
He Veterinary College was established to rescue these noble 
‘d valuable animals from torture and death ; and at that semi- 
iry we imbibed those first principles of comparative physiology 
id pathology which, in after practice, had so much ameliorated 
e condition of our quadruped dependants, and been the source 
respectability and profit to ourselves. We are, therefore, 
entified with the interests of that place; and, whoever may 
y to the contrary, I will fearlessly maintain that, if the Veteri- 
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