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lastic institutions. He could assure the members of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons that the institution would at all 
times meet with support from the teaching of the school with 
which it was connected, and, on the part of his brother professors 
and himself, he thanked the company for the high honour they 
had conferred upon them. (Cheers.) 
The health of the stewards was given in a highly eulogistic 
speech by Mr. Bransby Cooper. 
Professor Morton being called upon to reply, said, he was 
altogether at a loss to know why he should have been selected 
from among those “ older and abler” than himself to acknowledge 
the compliment so handsomely paid to the stewards, who were 
delighted to know that their efforts to give satisfaction had been 
crowned with such eminent success, except it was that many of 
them were well aware that he entertained some particular views 
in reference to this meeting. While the sciences have been 
said to hold each other by the hand, affording mutual support, 
he was anxious to call in the aid of the sister arts, painting and 
sculpture; not only to perpetuate these reunions, but to enable 
the profession to hand down the semblances of those who, having 
filled the President’s chair, had done so with honour to them¬ 
selves and advantage to science; that when we and they are 
passed to that “bourne whence no traveller returns,” exultingly 
it maj r be said of them, this man by his untiring energy and 
zeal maintained the best interests of the College, and that man 
by his mild and gentlemanly demeanour and conciliating dis¬ 
position reconciled conflicting parties, and did more to establish 
it than any who had gone before him ; and such a one we pos¬ 
sess in our present President, to do honour to whom we have 
met this evening. Soon we must possess “a local habitation” 
as well as a “ name ;” and there would be the fitting place to 
deposit these momentos. He trusted this suggestion would not 
only be approved of by all, but also meet with their cordial 
support. 
The health of the ladies was then proposed by the Chairman, 
and responded to by Sir Robert Peel, after which the company 
separated. 
The entertainment was in all respects well worthy of the in¬ 
creasing reputation of the Freemasons’ Tavern, and the highest 
satisfaction was expressed by the guests, at the great liberality 
displayed throughout the evening. 
