TESTIMONIAL TO PROFESSOR MORTON. 
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curriculum of the medical student, study which division of 
medicine he may. It cannot, in fact, be done without, 
condemn it as some persons may. Is not their ignorance of 
it the cause of this ? To throw down is easier than to build 
up; and to pass over slightingly a subject, more facile than to 
study its principles so as to master them. 
PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO 
PROFESSOR MORTON. 
On Friday, the 3d of August, a meeting of the members of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons took place at the 
London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, for the purpose of pre¬ 
senting a testimonial to Professor Morton on his retiring 
from the Professorship of Chemistry and Materia Medica at 
the Royal Veterinary College. 
About fifty gentlemen sat down to an excellent luncheon, 
under the presidency of J. Wilkinson, Esq., Principal Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeon to the Army: among them were— 
Professors Spooner, Simonds, Varnell, and Brown. 
Messrs. E. and F. Bailey. 
J. D. Barford. 
R. Barrow. 
H. T. Batt. 
R. Bowles. 
E. Braby. 
J. Broderick. 
T. D. Broad. 
W. Burley. 
W. Burt. 
B. Cartledge. 
H. J. Cartwright. 
J. E. Cornelius. 
C. Dickens. 
J. Ellis. 
S. Evershed. 
W. Field, sen. 
R. Fletcher. 
J. B. Gregory. 
J. Hall. 
E. Harrison. 
R. L. Hunt. 
R. T. Lambert. 
T. J. Lang. 
FI. Lepper, sen. 
J. S. Lupton. 
J. Moon. 
W. Raddall. 
W. Robinson. 
A. Rushall. 
F. R. Silvester. 
E. and W. Stanley. 
H J. Surmon. 
W. Wilson. 
J. and J. Woodger, 
and other friends. 
At the termination of the repast, the Chairman said. 
Gentlemen,—The first toast which I have to propose for your accept¬ 
ance is one which I am sure every gentleman present will fill a bumper 
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