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and particularly on influenza, did himself much credit, particu¬ 
larly by his clear and systematic development of the symptoms. 
The medal and first certificate were then presented to Mr. 
Clapp by the President, who congratulated him on receiving the 
first medal conferred on a veterinary student in that institution ; 
and he cautioned him not to relax from that habit of diligence 
which had procured for him that medal which, as being the first 
conferred on the class, he was sure Mr. Clapp would prize be¬ 
yond all price. That medal he would often with pride exhibit 
to his friends ; and he trusted that Mr. Clapp would feel the power 
- of such a stimulus, and advance with more rapid steps in the 
path of improvement. 
The second certificate of merit was adjudged to the motto. 
*‘Firm in every fortune.” Mr. Youatt here observed, that when 
he was young, and, now and then amused a leisure hour by read¬ 
ing tales of chivalry, he always understood that the knight who 
placed a particular device or motto on his shield was bound to 
defend it to the death. Now, his young friend had not been 
quite faithful to his motto. His first course was well run; 
he unhorsed his antagonist, and one of no mean power; but then, 
either assured of victory, or quailing at the difficulty of the other 
achievements, he lost his vantage ground. There was nothing in 
the essays of the medalist comparable with this aspirant’s essay 
on influenza; still the examiners assigned - to him, on a compa¬ 
rison of the whole of the two days, the second certificate ; but to 
which the lecturer, as a testimony of his sense of the talent 
evinced, and the hope, or rather the conviction, that, to this 
would hereafter be united the determination to do himself and 
his art justice, begged to add a copy of ‘^The Horse.” This 
successful candidate was Mr. Chapman, of Nottingham. 
The chairman presented the certificate and the the book, as¬ 
suring the candidate that he could not too highly estimate the 
kindness and the tact which the lecturer had displayed in the 
present of the book, and the hints by which it was accompanied. 
He, too, trusted, or rather was convinced, that Mr. Chapman 
would now proceed ^‘firm in every fortune,” until he obtained that 
eminence in his profession for which it appeared that he was so 
well qualified. 
The lecturer next requested the chairman to do him the honour 
of presenting to Mr. Thomas, one of the students of the second 
session, the old series of The Veterinarian, as a token of 
deep feeling of his kindness in presenting himself at the exa¬ 
mination, and also as an acknowledgment of the sterling merit 
of his essays. 
To Mr. Braby, of London, the lecturer also requested that a 
copy of The Horse” might be presented. He was entitled to 
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