468 PRESENTATION OF TESTIMONIAL TO MR. FLEMING. 
the author of several classical works which are standard works, not 
only for veterinarians but also for medical men all over the world. We 
may especially name his works on Obstetrics, on Medical Sanitary Science 
and Police, on Rabies and Hydrophobia, on Horse Shoes and Horse Shoeing, 
on Animal Plagues —this alone necessitated reading and translating eight 
or nine languages—also his Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary , and 
his translation from the French of Chauveau's Comparative Anatomy , one of 
the best and most complete of all the foreign text-books, and various useful 
articles too numerous to mention. We feel it is our bounden duty to return 
him some recognition for services rendered. I feel constrained to admit, 
although this testimonial emanates from Great Britain, Australia, Canada, 
America, and India, it but feebly expresses the estimation in which Mr. 
Fleming is held by the members of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. We find in him a man who has long laboured assiduously, 
honestly, and earnestly in our profession; his mind has risen to a large 
and just conception of life, and understands in its true sense that life is 
more than meat. His works will live after him; he has proved himself 
a man gifted with talents of no mean order, and these he has exercised 
for our good in the advancement of our common profession. He seems 
to have thrown his whole soul and his life into the struggle; and the 
poet says— 
“ Life is real, life is earnest, 
And the grave is not its goal; 
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 
Was not spoken of the soul.” 
We are taught that the emancipated soul will rise to a higher, brighter, 
and better world. With remembrances of kindness rendered here, to 
most of us this life is a chequered scene; even the material elements of 
this testimonial may, nay must perish, but the ethereal elements of the 
friendship which called it forth are capable of everlasting duration ; and 
the expressions of kindness with which its presentation is being accom¬ 
panied will, we hope, afford solace in life’s latest hour, and possibly 
freshen in eternity. His active mind and enterprising disposition have 
rendered him useful in many ways, greatly increasing our obligations to 
him. He possesses every attribute of a humane English gentleman. 
The strong characteristic of Mr. Fleming’s nature seems to be intense 
earnestness, blended with intense gentleness and kindness towards all 
animal creation. We are told—“ The man is dead alike to feeling, and 
unfit for human fellowship, who can witness animals placed lower in 
creation than himself, enjoying life, and their happiness does not augment 
his own.” His uncompromising antagonism to vivisection and cruelty to 
animals in every form proves the noble qualities of his mind, and shows 
that he 
“ Casts round the world an equal eye, 
And feels for all that live.” 
As an Examiner in our Court of Examiners, Mr. Fleming has earned for 
himself the high esteem of the Council and the Students. As the author 
and publisher of that popular monthly journal the Veterinary Journal , 
diffusing so much useful and scientific matter, by this almost Herculean 
task he has endeared himself to his profession. 
In conclusion, I beg to hand you, Sir, this beautiful timepiece with its 
inscription, and this purse of gold—a purse containing three hundred 
sovereigns, out of the bounty of 284 members of my profession. We most 
sincerely wish you many years of health and life to continue your noble 
labour; and whenever, in the ordinary course of nature, your useful and 
