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PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO PRO¬ 
FESSOR TUSON, BY THE STUDENTS AT¬ 
TENDING THE CLASS OF PRACTICAL 
CHEMISTRY AT THE ROYAL VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
On the 7th ult., an address, of which the subjoined is a copy, 
was presented to Professor Tuson by the pupils of the Royal 
Veterinary College, who had attended the course of laboratory 
instruction in practical chemistry. 
(C To 
RICHARD V. TUSON, Esq., F.C.S., 
Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica 
in the 
Royal Veterinary College. 
u Sir,—We the undersigned Students of the Royal Veterinary 
College beg to acknowledge most heartily the efforts you have 
made to facilitate the acquirement of a practical knowledge of 
such a difficult subject as chemistry. While our opportunities 
for studying this important science were confined to those afforded 
by attendance on lectures only, the facts and principles of this 
branch of the curriculum were retained in the memory with 
extreme difficulty, but since we have had the privilege of working 
with our own hands in the laboratory, we find that we make 
greater and more rapid progress, and that we can more thoroughly 
appreciate the value and practical utility of chemistry to every 
one desirous of following the profession of veterinary medicine 
on sound and rational principles. 
“We also beg to congratulate you on your being the first to 
establish a course of laboratory instruction in the oldest and 
principal veterinary college of this country; to thank you most 
sincerely for the sacrifice of your valuable time which you have 
voluntarily and gratuitously made for our benefit and advance¬ 
ment ; and to hope that you may long be spared to participate in 
that in which you have manifested such a deep interest, videlicet , 
the education and elevation of the social status of the veterinary 
student.” 
Here follow the signatures of seventy-seven students. 
ERRATUM, APRIL NUMBER. 
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