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progress, and thus too avarice, jealousy, and self conceit, robbed him 
of what might have been a bright and glorious reputation. Thus 
while Coleman possessed the ability to do much to give the infant 
science a high position, he preferred to exclude all those able contem¬ 
poraries from laboring with him, least he should have to divide the 
profits of the college. 
However, it cannot be denied that Coleman gave a high tone to 
the profession from his wealth and aristocratic associates, but this was 
a poor substitute for the thorough education and practical acquirements 
which ought have been insisted upon. 
From the St. Pancreas school emanated many graduates who have 
done much to foster and promote the science. Chief among whom was 
the late Professor Dick, the father of the profession in Scotland, who, 
under many difficulties and disadvantages, in spite of the opposition 
and jealousies of the English school founded the Edinburgh Veterinary 
College, and left an undying reputation; and as a legacy to the pro¬ 
fession, he left his whole wealth, the college property, the excellent 
museum containing perhaps the best pathological collection ever col¬ 
lected by one man; and better still many pupils unto whom he had 
instilled his own love of the science, and desire for its progress. 
It is a noteworthy fact, that as remarked by Professor Williams 
in his introductory lecture at the beginning of the past session. “That 
for the last twentv years, but one book has emanated from the London 
College, namely: ‘Tuson’s Pharmacy,’ and that all the modern text¬ 
books we possess are written by Edinburgh graduates, these are 
‘Strangeney’s Anatomy,’ Finlay Dun’s Materia Medica, ‘the various 
works of Mr. Fleming, Mr. Armatage, Sir F. Fitzwygram,’ and 
Professor William’s own excellent works. * * * * * * * * . 
“Who are those, (he asks) who occupy the foremost ranks in con¬ 
tributing to the literature of our profession, or who fill the chairs of 
the schools in all parts of the world where the English language is 
spoken ? I answer they are students of Edinburgh, men educated by 
Professor Dick or myself. In Canada the heads of the two colleges 
are D. McEachran at Montreal, who in thirteen years has established 
a large college, and is now receiving liberal encouragement from the 
Dominion; and Mr. Smith at Toronto, both students of Professor Dick. 
In the United States, Professor James Law at the Cornell University, 
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another student of Professor Dick’s, and at the Universities of Illinois 
and Massachusetts, two of my own students, Mr. Prentice and Mr. Ly¬ 
man, the latter of whom studied at this college.” In India, two of 
Professor Dick’.s, viz.: “Mr. Lamb at Bombay, and Mr. Hallen at 
Calcutta; while in Australia, Mr. Graham Mitchell, holds a high 
