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the Directors for promoting the measure in the session of 1823- 

 24, upon the understanding that, as far as regarded the Society, 

 it was entirely experimental. 



The committee, to whose superintendence the arrangement of 

 all the details was entrusted, immediately applied themselves in 

 carrying the views of the Society into effect, and they made the 

 necessary arrangements with Mr Dick, to whose zeal and prac- 

 tical skill very ample and distinguished testimonies were Lome. 

 The lecturer, furnished with a forge and other appendages for 

 the practical instruction of country farriers, accordingly began 

 his first course of lectures on the diseases of horses, black cattle, 

 sheep, and other domestic animals, illustrated with the necessary 

 anatomical demonstrations. 



First Session, 1823-24. 



The introductory lecture for the first session was delivered 

 on the evening of Monday the 24th November 1823, in 

 the Calton Convening Koom. Besides the students, several 

 members of the Society's committee and medical gentlemen 

 were present, as well as various practical farriers from the 

 country. The course, consisting of forty-six lectures, continued 

 to be delivered every Monday and Thursday evening during the 

 season. The number of students was twenty-five. The success 

 of the course was highly satisfactory; students from various 

 parts of the country attended it, and derived much advantage 

 from the instructions they had received. One of them came 

 regularly twice a week from the country, a distance of nine 

 miles. The fee was two guineas for new pupils, and one guinea 

 for those students who had formerly been with Mr Dick. 



Dr Barclay, in stating to the General Meeting of the Society 

 in Jul}^ 1824 the success which had attended the lectures, 

 showed various specimens of preparations made by the lecturer, 

 which gave ample proof of his knowledge in the important . 

 department of anatomy. vSir John Hope, a member of the com- 

 mittee, expressed his particular satisfaction at the establishment 

 of such a course of lectures, experimentally, under the Society's 

 patronage, and his approbation of the lecturer's science and skill 

 from the specimens he had seen. Sir John Hay and Mr Innes 

 of Stow having supported the same views, the recommendation 

 by the committee that the lectures should be continued, under 

 the Society's patronage, was unanimously agreed to. 



Second Session, 1824-25. 



The course of lectures for the second session was com- 

 menced in November 1824, and the hour was made to 



