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VETERINARY M£^ETINGS AND TRANSACTIONS. 
The chairman next gave the health of Mr. Sewell, of whom 
it might be truly said that he was always at his post; that he 
was often gifted with an almost intuitive knowledge of disease; 
and that the students could not attend him in the discharge of 
his duty, without deriving from him most important information. 
Mr. Sewell entered into a lengthened and satisfactory history 
of the progress and present state of the Royal Veterinary Col¬ 
lege. The numbers of the pupils had been progressively in¬ 
creasing, and their respectability and acquirements had rapidly 
increased. The debt of full £10,000 had been wiped away, and 
sufficient funds remained to secure the perpetuity of the insti¬ 
tution. The Veterinary College had been lately much aspersed, 
but that was all blown over now. He would be ever found at 
his post, and happy to contribute to the improvement of the 
pupil, or the prosperity of the institution. 
The chairman now proposed the health of those who had con¬ 
tributed to the respectability of the veterinary art by their 
writings and their conduct. The only gentleman whom he now 
recognized as coming within the scope of his toast was Mr. James 
Turner, and he would beg to include in the toast “ the veterinary 
surgeons of the army.” 
Mr. Turner shortly returned thanks, and hoped that at some 
future time he might better deserve the honour now done him. 
Is ext was given, ‘‘ The other veterinary schools, and also the 
continental ones.” 
Mr. Youatt, as lecturer on veterinary medicine in a new 
school, returned thanks. There was room for more veterinary 
schools than one south of the Tweed; and while each w'as con¬ 
ducted on honourable principles, no one had a right to com¬ 
plain ; or, rather, the true friend of the art w^ould rejoice, for 
some, and not disgraceful rivalry being excited between them, 
veterinary science would probably be better taught. He had the 
pleasure of ranking the Professor of the Scottish school among 
his personal friends, and he would pledge himself that neither in 
deed nor in thought would he (Mr. Dick) ever compromise the 
art he taught. Veterinary science deserved yet better men to 
plead her cause and unfold her worth. With deep and un¬ 
feigned respect for the chairman and his colleagues, he would 
tell them, that even they did not sufficiently appreciate the value 
of the veterinary profession ; for that when physiology would, 
at some future time (which in many important points it was 
not yet), be securely based on observation and experiment, 
the task w^ould be effected by a veterinary surgeon. The human 
practitioner conducted his experiments almost at haphazard, not 
ignorant, perhaps, of the common anatomy of various animals ; 
