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fluid. He has furnished us with the only exact data we 
possess as to the velocity of the current of blood. Those 
wTre most valuable experiments that he performed some 
thirty or forty years ago, and I am glad to say that he is 
still alive and able to repeat and confirm them. Another 
subject, which is of very great interest to both professions, is 
one which has only been of late years in any way cleared 
up,—1 mean the economy of the entozoon, and I must say 
that we are largely indebted to such men as Professor Roll, 
of Vienna, and Professor Heubner, of Dresden, for the light 
they have thrown upon that wonderful subject. I think it 
is our duty henceforward to endeavour to work together, as 
far as possible, in the promotion of that great common 
science on which the two practical professions are founded. 
The same laws prevail in the economy of animals as prevail 
in the economy of man, and it is our duty to co-operate as 
largely as we can in promoting the investigation of those 
laws. It is not for me to say more on the present occasion 
in reference to the veterinary profession, except to remark 
that it is a subject of very great congratulation that it is 
now' fairly launched in a progress and in a line of advance¬ 
ment w'hich cannot fail to place it high in the public esti¬ 
mation. I beg leave to propose Prosperity to the Veteri¬ 
nary Profession.(Cheers.) 
Mr, Rohinson proposed “ the Royal Agricultural Society.” 
That Society, he said, w'as highly esteemed in the country, 
and had been the means of effecting great improvements in 
the cultivation of the soil and the breed of cattle. He w'ell 
remembered its first meeting at Oxford, where, amongst the 
animals exhibited, there w'as but a single sire, and the imple¬ 
ments comprised two or three carts and w'aggons, and a few' 
machines employed in agriculture. Contrasting that meeting 
wdth the one held last year at Battersea, the progess of the 
Society w'ould be seen to have been most remarkable. 
Mr, W, Field, jiin., proposed the health of the Council of 
the College. 
Mr, Field, in responding, said that the Council had endea¬ 
voured to fulfil the duties of their office, and he hoped they 
had done so to the satisfaction of the members of the 
profession. He trusted that the rising generation would 
bestir themselves in promoting the advancement of veteri¬ 
nary science, and thus succeed in obtaining a position for 
the profession, which it had not yet reached. 
Mr, Goodwin proposed the health of Mr. Braby, and dwelt 
on the services rendered to the College by that gentleman in 
various capacities. 
