PROPOSED MONUMENT TO PROFESSOR COLEMAN. 307 
not this operate as an incentive to others to do likewise ? 
Chill not the flow of love by which surviving friends may be 
cheered. 
My object in thus writing, is not so much to indulge a 
spirit of censoriousness, as to awaken the veterinary pro¬ 
fession to a sense of its neglect, and to induce its members 
to avail themselves of the feeling which now’ prevails to 
remove the imputation. 
It is true the person I plead for was never pinched by 
biting poverty, nor exposed to the world’s neglect, but con¬ 
trariwise ; nevertheless, as we are told to give honour to 
whom honour is due, there has been a remissness on our 
part. I refer to the late Professor Coleman, “ a man, take 
him for all in all, we ne’er shall look upon his like again.” 
Did he not, for the long period of half a century, fill with 
distinguished honour the chair of principal professor to the 
Royal Veterinary College, the parent institution in this 
country? Have his pupils forgotten the easy and pleasing 
manner in which he was wont to inculcate important truths 
connected with medicine ? Can they not recall to mind his 
sound common sense, and the clearness and force of the 
arguments which, in after life, they have found so beneficial 
to their interests? Did he not, by his associations and 
suavity of manner, considerably add to the respectability 
of the profession, and the estimation in which it is held by 
the public? Through his instrumentality were not many of 
the medical schools of London free to his students, and 
did he not urge and successfully carry the recognition of 
veterinary surgeons to the army as commissioned officers? 
Did he not likewise contribute to the literature of his pro¬ 
fession ? Not, perhaps, so much as he might have done; 
but have others who have succeeded him done more? 
These, my views, Messrs. Editors, might b£ multiplied, 
but I refrain. Enough has been said to show’ the desire by 
which I am actuated, namely, to evince by some public 
monument the respect we, as a profession, entertain for the 
memory of one to whom w r e are all so much indebted. I 
must leave the working out of the matter to others, and be 
content with having made the proposition. May it be 
realised in my day. 
Yours, 
Sinceritas. 
