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neighbourhood, and the pleasure and advantages which result 
from it, and to induce them to establish—as in many situa¬ 
tions and not in very wide circles they may—similar asso¬ 
ciations. If in the establishment of such societies they will 
carefully steer clear of every party object and feeling, they will 
be amply rewarded in the suppression of little, but annoying 
and disreputable jealousies, and unfair and dishonourable com¬ 
petitions and crosses; in the increased acquaintance with and 
esteem for each other; in the knowledge of each other's practice 
and each other's improvement; and in the increased improve¬ 
ment, and reputation, and success of each; and, veterinary 
practitioners being thus connected together, all will be gra¬ 
dually effected for the advantage and progression of the vete¬ 
rinary art which the most ardent reformer can wish. 
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They who had the honour of attending on the beautifully 
simple, but accurate and profound anatomical lectures of Mr. 
Brookes, and who have not forgotten how the kindness of the 
man mingled with and softened, and yet secured the authority 
of the teacher, and imprinted his lessons deep on the memory 
and the heart, will be pleased to hear that sixty of his pupils 
and friends, including some of the most eminent practitioners in 
the metropolis, invited their old master, on the 25th ultimo, to a 
public dinner. Our excellent friend, although past his se¬ 
ventieth year, was in robust health, the faculties of his mind 
unimpaired, and the buoyancy of his spirits scarcely diminished. 
It must have been, indeed, gratifying' to him to see so many, 
the foundation of whose skill and fortune he had mainly con¬ 
tributed to lay, anxious to tell him that the lapse of years had 
not diminished their admiration and gratitude. 
As his theatre had been gratuitously opened to veterinary 
pupils, the Veterinary College was not forgotten among the 
toasts. Professor Coleman returned thanks in appropriate terms; 
and when, afterwards, the health of an humbler teacher was 
drunk, who had had the advantage of having' been a pupil of Mr. 
Brookes for some time before he entered the Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, it gave that individual the truest delight to hear one of 
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