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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, I860. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
PRESENTATION OE A TESTIMONIAL TO PROF. MORTON, 
ON HIS RETIRING FROM THE CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY 
AND MATERIA MEDICA, AT THE ROYAL VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
It might possibly have been thought that we should have 
allowed the present number to speak for itself, since a 
goodly portion of its contents refers to one of us. Never¬ 
theless, such is the peculiarity of the circumstances, that we 
must be permitted to advert to them, even though we should 
be charged with self-laudation. Indeed, we know no reason 
why our sentiments should be withheld: surely the relative 
position in which we stand to each other is no just ground. 
We need hardly say that we allude to the Report of the 
retirement of Professor Morton from the Chair of Chemistry 
and Materia Medica in the Royal Veterinary College, which 
we have given in full, thus increasing considerably the num¬ 
ber of our pages. 
To all concerned the event was alike honorable, and the 
recipient of so marked a distinction, from a large portion of 
the members of the profession, could not fail to be highly 
gratified. 
Seldom has it been our good fortune to attend a public 
meeting at which such a oneness of sentiment prevailed, and 
so great a desire was evinced to accord an approval of his 
conduct to one about to relinquish his professional duties in 
connexion with an institution with which he had been for 
so many years associated. 
In a former number we recorded the expression of the 
students of the College towards him, and now we have the 
satisfaction of giving insertion to that of the profession. Well 
may it be said that he retires with honours thick upon him; 
