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lent, opportunities for six years past of knowing the nature of 
the work being done by the Montreal Veterinary College, 
having for that time occupied the position of one of the exam¬ 
iners in the practice of medicine and surgery. I may say that 
I have watched its progress with interest, and year by year 
noted the improvement in the proficiency of the young men 
coming before us. Besides, I am thoroughly aware of the 
high reputation of the school, and the gentlemen who form 
its staff of professors and associate professors. And 1 know 
how much the Dean of the Faculty has had to do in preventing 
contagious diseases in your live stock, in the advantage of 
Canada over the United States of from $10 to $15 a head for 
every animal exported to Great Britain. 
1 wish here to say, that I have noticed with considerable 
surprise, the fact stated by the Dean, that this Faculty, second 
in importance, both commercially and scientifically, to no 
other Faculty in the university, should receive no aid to enable 
it to carry on its good work. Surely in this great commercial 
metropolis, there are gentlemen who can appreciate the great 
work this Faculty is engaged in, sufficiently to induce them to 
contribute to its endowment. As an inducement for others to 
do something towards helping on the progress of comparative 
medicine, I beg to say that 1 have spent thirty-three years of 
my life in the active practice of the profession, during which 
time I have accumulated a library and private musuem of 
considerable value. The library contains among other works, 
“The Veterinarian” for fifty years, a most important period 
in the history of our profession, and especially on the subject 
of contagious diseases of domesticated animals in Great 
Britain, and the legislation bearing on this important subject. 
As I am now about retiring from practice, 1 have much pleas¬ 
ure in presenting both to this Faculty, the only condition I 
ask being that they be kept intact, and form a part of the 
library and museum of this Faculty. In conclusion, I beg to 
express a hope that before long this Faculty will have among 
the benefactors of the university, friends enough to put it on 
a footing, if not equal to the older Faculties, at least such as 
will enable it to keep pace with them on the onward march 
of improvement. I may say that the class who have gradu- 
