748 OPENING OF SESSION AT ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE 
Gentlemen, let the moral of this homely verse be the 
dominant principle of your professional lives,” (Applause). 
At the close of the address, 
The Chairman said : Although a governor of this College 
I yet consider myself one of yourselves, a member of your 
own profession, and one, therefore, who can claim your in¬ 
dulgence in the few remarks that I have to make to you. 
In the first place it is unnecessary to call for a vote of 
thanks to Mr. Tuson for the admirable address that he has 
put before you, because you have already given him that 
vote of thanks by your acclamations. 
You, gentlemen, who are about to enter this profession, 
must remember that, like the department of medicine to 
which I belong it is a profession of the highest possible 
grade, for in my opinion it is far superior to the other 
two professions which rank before us, namely, the clerical 
and the legal profession. (Applause.) As physicians and 
surgeons we have cases of life and death to deal with 
placed under our care, with the solicitation that we shall 
exert to the utmost of our powers the education which 
we have derived in our early years and the experience 
we have attained in our later years. There are put un¬ 
reservedly in our hands cases of serious importance, in 
wffiich we are called upon to exercise the best of our 
judgment in order to achieve a happy result. Such is 
also the case with you, and although at the present 
moment there is an enormous amount to learn so as to 
enable you to practise your profession successfully, yet I 
am sure that not only will those who are now about to enter 
the profession, but those who are students at the present 
time, recognise that their life is to be devoted to the study 
of that subject in which they are to-day initiated, and that 
they will lose no opportunity of making themselves pro¬ 
ficient, so that they may alleviate those distresses to which 
I have alluded. The Governors of this College, I hope, have 
lost no opportunity of doing what they can to advance 
the interests of the College. The museum at the present 
moment, although not, perhaps, perfectly efficient, is far 
superior to what it was some years ago, and the main¬ 
tenance of that museum will, in a very material degree, 
depend upon the exertions of the students themselves. 
Any morbid specimen which, as students or practitioners, 
you can supply to the museum will add very much to its 
efficiency, and I should be certainly prepared to propose 
to the governors that a record of those specimens should be 
