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extended work on the 6 Principles of Physiology, General and 
Comparative and likewise to Kirke’s and Paget’s excellent 
6 Hand-book of Physiology. 5 
On chemistry you will study the profound writings of 
Brand, Bowman, and Fownes in particular; and on Veterinary 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, you have the book of all 
others, Morton’s c Manual of Pharmacy,’ a new edition of 
which (the sixth) will shortly appear. His ‘ Toxicological 
Chart,’ you will also find to be indispensable in the after¬ 
practice of your profession. Headland’s { Action of Medi¬ 
cines’ is likewise especially suited for your study. On Sur¬ 
gery and Pathological Anatomy, you should refer, among 
others, to the writings of Millar, Cooper, and Liston, as also 
to Paget’s c Surgical Pathology,’ and Andral’s ‘ Pathological 
Anatomy.’ 
The pathological w r orks relating immediately to veteri¬ 
nary science are so numerous, and of such a diversified 
character, that time will only allow of my mentioning the 
names of some of those who have thus done a lasting honour 
to our profession. Coleman, Percival, Blaine, Youatt, Clark, 
Turner, Field, and Spooner, are of this number. This list 
might be greatly extended, and doubtless should be, if merit 
and literary talent, wherever it is found, had to be brought 
to your especial notice; but with these names we must rest 
content for the present. I venture one more remark on 
this part of my subject, even at the risk of being charged 
with self-laudation, and that is to recommend to your notice 
the only journal which exists in this country, entirely 
devoted to the interests of our science, f The Veterinarian .’ 
This work, after having held on for thirty-two years, may be 
rightly said to be the property of the profession, and to be 
both in usefulness and intelligence just that which the pro¬ 
fession likes to make it. Let us hope that as it further 
growls in years it will increase in vigour, and be all its long- 
tried friends desire it should be. 
Thus, gentlemen, I have attempted to place before you 
an outline of the facilities afforded by the College for your 
instruction. These might have been added to, as well as 
the subjects themselves have been expounded at greater 
length, and with far more precision and force, had the 
delivery of this address been undertaken by either of my 
colleagues. Quoting the language of one of them, “ I could 
have wished that this honour had been conferred on either 
of them instead; for they, from ‘ thoughts that breathe,’ 
wmuld have given you c w^ords that burn,’ and thus profitably 
have engaged your attention during the current hour.” 
