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teaching scliool, but for the nomination of a council authorised 

 to appoint a board of examiners, and to grant diplomas to all who 

 should have followed the curriculum and passed the examina- 

 tions to be prescribed from time to time by such council ; and 

 resolutions to that effect have been passed at most influential 

 general meetings of the Society. Tliis desire was strengthened 

 by the decease of Mr Dick, and the terms of his will, by which 

 the Society was in some respects disassociated from the College, 

 and the latter came under the superintendence of the Corpora- 

 tion of Edinburgh. 



On the 27th of June 1866 the Society adopted a Memorial, 

 praying for the creation and establishment of a Eoyal Veterinary 

 College m Scotland, with power to confer degrees in veterinary 

 medicine and surgery. This Memorial, signed by the Duke of 

 Buccleuch, the President, was forwarded to Government ; but at 

 the general meeting in January 1867 it was reported that hitherto 

 the Society had not been successful, and that a very strong 

 influence liad been brought to bear upon the Government, for the 

 purpose of keeping the whole veterinary governing body in 

 London, so that there should be but one veterinary college for 

 the whole of the United Kingdom, with power to confer diplomas 

 on veterinary students. 



At the annual examination in April 1867, Lord Provost 

 Chambers, adverting to the subject, said— Working harmoni- 

 ously with the Highland Society, the medical colleges, and the 

 graduates of the Veterinary College, the Town Council of Edin- 

 burgh were now determined to apply to Government for a Vete- 

 rinary Charter for Scotland. His Lordship further observed that, 

 under the provisions of such a Charter, a species of veterinary 

 university would l^e created in Scotland ; examining boards 

 would be appointed ; diplomas and degrees would be granted ; 

 the curriculum and general arrangements at the Edinburgh 

 Veterinary College and other teaching institutions improved and 

 extended ; and a new and active stimulus thus given to the study 

 of the veterinary art. Endeavours were made several years ago 

 to afhhate this school to the Eoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons 

 of England, but their endeavours had signally failed. The 

 friends of the College had, however, many years' experience of the 

 value of their own Scottish examinations, so ably conducted 

 under the management of the Highland Society. Such examina- 

 tions they were determined should be continued, not as formerly 

 under the auspices of the Highland Society alone, but under the 

 authority of a Eoyal Charter, for which immediate application 

 would be made. 



Mr F. N. Menzies, Secretary of the Highland Society, concurred 

 heartily in the observations which had been made by the Lord 

 Provost. The Edinburgh Veterinary College had, he said, proved 



