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TESTIMONIAL TO PROFESSOR MORTON. 
are many gentlemen present anxious to speak, I must draw my re¬ 
marks to a close, assuring you that there is no man who feels more 
desirous for the advancement of agricultural pursuits than I do. I have 
been brought up in the country, and I wish to die in the country, though 
not at present, thank you. (Laughter.) I have very great pleasure, there¬ 
fore, in proposing the health of the worthy professor. You all know 
how industrious he is. I see him, not only at the meetings of the Agri¬ 
cultural Society, but also those of the Farmers’ Club, although he is very 
modest, and does not often intrude his opinions upon the public. Then 
he has been the means of bringing another gentleman into association 
with the society, one whom we have long known—Professor Spooner. 
Graziers tell me that he is a little particular, and that it will require a 
very clever man to bring a cripple into the show-yard which will escape 
his scrutinising eye. (Laughter.) 
With the health of Professor Simonds I have to join that of Professor 
Brown, of the Cirencester College. I hope the institution of which Mr. 
Brown is the veterinary professor will prosper, as I have no doubt 
it will. There is nothing like “teaching the young idea how to shoot” 
early in life. If we can only give them some veterinary knowledge 
at a time when they are being instructed in Greek and all the “ ologies,” 
we shall be doing a very good thing. They will be able to progress 
with the times, and when they get to St. Pancras they will be half 
initiated into the secrets of the profession. Y'ou will all join with me 
in drinking to the health of those gentlemen, expressing a hope that they 
may yet live many years to fill the distinguished position they now 
hold, and that every year may add to the advancement of our profession. 
(Cheers.) 
Professor Simonds —Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, my friend who 
introduced this toast to your notice observed, at the outset of his speech, 
that he little expected he should have been called upon to perform so 
pleasurable a duty; and most certainly I did not anticipate that I should 
have had the honour done me of associating my name with “ the success 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.” 
It is true that I have been, from the time of the formation of the society, 
connected with it. and therefore even before I became a teacher in the 
Veterinary College. My friend will, I am sure, allow me to explain with 
regard to one point he has mentioned, namely, that it was owing to the 
society that I had the honour of receiving the appointment which I hold 
within the College. All must admit that the society has done a very 
great deal in support of veterinary science, but the steps which it originally 
took for the advancement of our art were unconnected with those which 
were adopted by the profession itself. The governors of the College saw 
the feeling which existed, and they believed, with the profession, that the 
time had arrived for an extended curriculum of the studies of the pupil 
to be made. In consequence of this, measures were taken, -which led to 
my being elected. A little before this time, the late Professor Sewell had 
undertaken the teaching of cattle pathology, in which course he was, 
perhaps, influenced by what he saw of the proceedings of the society, and 
of which he also was an original member. The pecuniary support given 
by the society to the College has continued to the present period, with but 
few interruptions, and those arising out of matters which need not now 
be inquired into. 
With regard to anything which I may have been instrumental in doing 
with a view to raise the veterinary profession in the estimation of the 
agriculturist, all I can say is, that the expression of such being the case 
amply repays me for all the trouble I may have had. It is true that, 
