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progress? Emphatically no! The great luminary of human medicine, 
and the great leader of humanity in Germany, Virchow, as well as other 
men of the same kind, living and passed away, have all found this to be 
the sole pathway to success. So it will be to eternity; the great must 
walk alone. Gerlach was no exception to this rule, and so it will be 
with the one who would take his place as Leader of our Forlorn Hope. 
All are willing to concede to his great work in contributing to the bet¬ 
ter appreciation of the profession in his native land. And the day will 
surely come when the judgment the writer gives to-day will also be jus¬ 
tified. Gerlach sacrificed ^all thought of himself; Veterinary science 
was his idol, and like the Hindoo enthusiast, who allows himself to be 
crushed by the wheels of his advancing God, so was Gerlach crushed, 
and so he sacrificed himself for our cause. Fellow students in Ger¬ 
many, let us make our late Director our study, educate yourselves 
broadly but when our time comes, when we, too, must select the point 
upon which we will work for our professional advancement, we too, like 
him, must concentrate all our energies, and hold them well in hand for this 
one work ; like him we must consider no sacrifice too great, no work too 
hard. We have before us a sacred duty, I as foreigner, you still more 
as his countrymen, all of us men, and Veterinarians, to see that the Tree 
of Science, which he planted, and which lie gave his life to nourish, does 
. not suffer for want of support. The best monument we can build to his 
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memory is to do our part to the completion of his work, and our work 
too. Let us see which one of us can fill the place, its impossible for 
your country yet to fill. Boldly in the conflict lists of the world, your 
friend and colleague throws this gauntlet at your feet. Who will be the 
first to take up and unfurl our banner, and lead our advance to new 
scientific conquests ? The question of education is the one demanding 
the most careful application of scientific methods. It was Gerlach’s 
hope to have lived long enough to bring the entire system of the Berlin 
school into the hands of specialists. It was Gerlach, more than any one 
man, who believed in the centralization of Veterinary education for his 
country at one well appointed institution. A few months before his 
death, he laid before the writer his ideal plan for the future, telling him 
of the many hindrances in his way, the greatest of which was want of 
funds; even then he hoped against hope to bring it about. Unknown, 
I think, to his colleagues was the fact, that he nourished a secret dislike 
against the present plan of having our special pathology taught by one 
* or two men. “ Divide your work ; no time to study, no time to study,” 
he would again and again repeat, and warn me against falling into this 
