306 PROPOSED MONUMENT TO PROFESSOR COLEMAN. 
There appears to me no ambiguity here. But is it that the 
title cannot now be restricted? If so, let some other be 
sought for and applied. The term Zoatrist, proposed 
some years since, sounds too foreign to please us; one more 
euphonious might surely be chosen, although Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon hitches at times on the tongue. 
May I further be permitted, through the medium of your 
pages, to draw the attention of the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons to this subject? It is one 
meriting their earnest consideration, but it appears to have 
nearly or entirely escaped their notice. Methinks the time 
is come when something effectual should be done, that we 
may be enabled to maintain our status —some steps taken by 
which we may ensure our recognition as a scientific body. 
In numbers we are sufficiently large for this purpose, and I 
feel convinced that it is only required that certain induce¬ 
ments should exist to make us all that we desire and ought 
to be. Often you are advocating progress; but how can 
this be effected whilst as yet it can hardly be said that we 
have a starting place—no common bond of union, even in a 
name ? 
Again I venture to press the consideration of this subject 
on the members of our Council. 
PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT TO THE 
LATE PROFESSOR COLEMAN. 
Sirs, —From some observations in your last number, you 
seem not to view with favour posthumous honours. You 
would rather that honour should be paid to the living than 
the dead. Were this invariably the case, would it not 
engender a spirit of pride and self-satisfaction, and even of 
idleness ? 
It is true, that many have had to contend with cankering 
care and wipe the brow of poverty, while exposed to the 
proud man’s contumely and the world’s scorn—their labours 
and their talents alike unheeded. Yet has all this, painful as 
it is, been the means of exciting them to increased energy, 
and the working out of a greater amount of good for their 
fellow-men. 
Then does it not call forth some of the nobler feelings of 
man, when, recognising what has been done, he evinces his 
gratitude in a public record to neglected worth ? And may 
