THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 125 



" Actuated by one siiiLjle object — the improvement of Scotland in every 

 department of rural economy — the Society would wish urgently to impress 

 upon the landowners and intelligent occupiers of your district the great 

 importance of establishing among you a steady individual, regularly and 

 scientifically bred to the ordinary work of the forge, and to the correct 

 treatment of Live Stock under those various diseases and accidents to which 

 they are subject. 



" With this view the Directors have deemed it proper to remind the 

 various Agricultural Societies of Scotland of the recommencement of the 

 Veterinary Lectures in November next, and to bring under their notice the 

 beneficial consequences which would result from each district sending up 

 one or more intelligent individuals to attend Mr Dick, who shall afterwards 

 be established in their respective districts. Nor is it undeserving of notice 

 that mechanics, chemistry, &c., with the use of a library, may now be 

 acquired upon such easy terms in the School of Arts, that a steady and 

 attentive student cannot fail to carry home a vahiable store of scientific 

 knowledge from a winter's attendance in Edinburgh. 



" The probable expense attendant upon such a measure will necessarily 

 vary according to circumstances. Where employment as a journeyman is 

 wished by any individual, and is obtained, either at Mr Dick's or some of 

 the other forges in Edinburgh, it would probably be no more than the 

 expense of travelling and the lecturer's fee of two guineas, with the fees of 

 the School of Arts, which are very moderate, should he attend that excel- 

 lent institution. Where, again, such employment shall not be procured, 

 the expense will be necessarily increased to meet the charge of subsistence, 

 but ought in no case to exceed X20 or ^25, lectures of all kinds included. 



" I have only further to add that the Lectures and Anatomical Demon- 

 strations during the tAvo past sessions have given great satisfaction both to 

 practical farriers and also to men of science who have occasionally attended. 

 And from some able reports of cases transmitted from different parts of the 

 country by young farriers who have attended the lectures, the Lecturer is 

 much gratified to find that the knowledge imparted has been productive of 

 the best results. — I have the honour to be, &c., 



(Signed) "Charles Gordon, 



Depute Secretary." 



From various intimations received by the Society, it appeared 

 that several districts had, in consequence of the above com- 

 munication, resolved to send up proper persons to receive 

 instructions. 



Third Session, 1825-26. 



At the Anniversary General Meeting in January 1826, Mr 

 Fergusson of Woodhill (in the absence of Dr Barclay fi^om 

 indisposition) made a very satisfactory report of the school 

 for the then current session which had been commenced on 

 the 22d of November 1825, at seven o'clock in the evening. 

 From his report it appeared that, besides gentlemen who 

 attended for their private information, there were twenty 

 practical farriers, who had come or had been sent up from 

 different parts of the country, and who, at the end of tlie 

 session, would return to their several districts regularly and 

 scientifically instructed in the treatment of liorses, cattle, and 



