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DINNER OF THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. 
remember this last meeting; and may each succeeding year wit¬ 
ness such another! 
Dinner of the Medical School of the University 
of London. 
[From a Correspondent.] 
On Friday last, February the 23d, the Medical School of the 
University of London entertained their different Professors at the 
Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. 
The gentleman chosen to act as president was Mr. Nathaniel 
Eisdell, a distinguished student of the University; Messrs. Nash 
and Wright filling the offices of vice-presidents. 
In addition to the usual medical professors, invitations were 
issued to Professor Amos and Mr. Youatt: to the first, on ac¬ 
count of his association with the chair of medical jurisprudence; 
whilst to the latter it was wished to offer some testimony of 
acknowledgment for the urbanity with which, by permitting the 
medical students to attend on some of his lectures on veterinary 
surgery, he had enabled them to make such valuable addenda 
to their already extensive means of observation and improvement. 
I have neither time nor space to enumerate the various toasts. 
The address of the chairman, when “ Our Professors” was 
given, elicited much applause. The memory of the late Mr. 
Bennett was respectfully and appropriately proposed by Mr. R. 
Shute, the gold medalist of the last class of the deceased Pro¬ 
fessor, and drunk in “ solemn silence.” The kindly and decorous 
feeling with which the toast was received was highly pleasing to 
those who knew him, and, knowing him, esteemed him, and 
retailed a deep sense of the benefit they had received from his 
instructions. 
The conviviality of the assembly (one hundred and twenty in 
number) was kept up till a late hour; and the excellent arrange¬ 
ments of the evening were much praised. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We know what was done, or rallier not done, and Studens is, on the whole, 
right; but his language is too unmeasured, we may almost say libellous. 
C. B. will obtain an exceedingly superficial and erroneous notion of 
anatomy from plates, even if we had any good ones ; which, to our shame 
be it spoken, we have not. All that he can do at present is, carefully to 
study Mr. Percivall's work, as soon as published, for the anatomy of the 
horse; Mr. Blaine’s “ Veterinary Outlines" for the theory and treatment 
of disease ; and “ The Horse” of the Society for the Dilfusion of Useful 
Knowledge, for a popular but not superficial sketch of the anatomy, pa¬ 
thology, and general management of that animal. Richerand’s “ Physio¬ 
logy,” and the last edition of Lawrence’s “ Blumenbach,” will be useful 
auxiliaries. 
