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THE PRESENTATION OF 
** Mr. W. Percivall has written some excellent works on the 
anatomy, and physiology, and diseases of the horse, and exceed¬ 
ingly useful to the student. If I could be induced to comply 
with the request of my worthy assistant, and leave behind me 
some record of my opinions and instructions, I could not expect 
to rival the accuracy and perspicuity which characterize the 
productions of that gentleman. 
Mr. Youatt, his brother in the successful pursuit of veterinary 
science, has published various works, which reflect on him the 
highest credit. 
‘‘ Mr. Joseph Goodwin has also published a useful work on the 
foot of the horse, and the principles of shoeing. 
All these gentlemen were my pupils, and I need not tell you 
that I am proud of them. 
There is another author who was not my pupil, w^ho was 
assistant to M. Sainbel before I was called to the College; 
I refer to Mr. Blaine. You, gentlemen, well know the value of 
his works, and the assistance which you derive from them in 
the earliest and the most advanced period of your studies. 
** I look to the Veterinary College, and I see three gentlemen 
whom I must not pass over in silence. Mr. Spooner, of whose 
intimate knowledge of veterinary anatomy, and his facility of im¬ 
parting that knowdedge, many of you have had experience. My 
old friend, Mr. Vines, the assistant demonstrator,—whether 
a little harder work agrees with him I know not, but he is 
actually getting fat upon it. I am glad that he now gives much 
more satisfaction than he used to do, and I regard him as a 
valuable officer of this institution. I mentioned a third person, 
Mr. Morton, neither a veterinary surgeon, nor a veterinary stu¬ 
dent, but who, somehow or other, has contrived to pick up a 
vast deal of knowledge on veterinary subjects, and which, com¬ 
bined with that indispensable portion of your education, che¬ 
mistry, he satisfactorily imparts to the pupils. 
If I were to select particular families w'ho have distinguished 
themselves in the practice of our art, the name of Field would 
first of all occur to me. The father was a student to the College 
when I came to it. I am told that he amassed a princely fortune : 
