THE HIGHLAND AND AGEICULTUKAL SOCIETY. liji 



some and liberal manner in which Professor Mnnro, Dr Knox, 

 Mr Liston, Dr Thomas J. Aitken, Mr Fergusson, and Dr Murray 

 had opened their classes to the veterinary students, a privilege 

 of the utmost importance, and wliich there could be no doubt 

 materially affected the issue of the examinations on the present 

 and former occasions. 



Tenth Session, 1832-33. 



Fifty students were enrolled for the tenth session ; of these 

 thirty were practical men, and eleven who had attended the 

 necessary course of study passed the examinations and received 

 certificates. The examinations took place on the lltli and 

 12 th April, and were conducted by several of the most distin- 

 guished medical professors, lecturers, and practitioners of Edin- 

 burgh, in presence of a numerous attendance of the Directors and 

 members of the Society, and of gentlemen interested in veter- 

 inary science and rural affairs, including Mr Eobert Johnston, 

 who originally brought the subject of veterinary lectures under 

 the attention of the Society. The general result of the examina- 

 tions afforded the highest satisfaction to the intelligent and 

 competent judges. Mr W. "Wood, one of the examiners, in 

 addressing the students in name of his medical friends .and 

 himself, adverted to the obligations which they owed to the 

 increasing and scientific labours of their instructor Mr Dick. 

 Dr Mackintosh added some valuable advice to them upon main- 

 taining a correct professional character throughout life, concur- 

 ring heartily in all that had been said upon the merits of the 

 school. Mr Fergusson, the Convener of the Society's Veterinary 

 Committee, then acknowledged in grateful terms the valuable 

 and kind services of the medical examiners, as also the liberality 

 of the professors and lecturers in affording the students gratuitous 

 attendance upon their lectures, without M^hich Mr Dick stated 

 he could not have been able to impart the knowledge which the 

 students had acquired. The Convener also adverted to the com- 

 modious and elegant hall which had been erected by Mr Dick, 

 and in which they then for the first time assembled, as being 

 both useful and ornamental. 



On the occasion of the General Meeting in June 1833, the 

 Directors had to express their regret at having lost the ser\'ices 

 of the zealous and indefatigable Convener of the Veterinary 

 Committee, Mr Fergusson of Woodhill, whose absence deprived 

 the Society of his valuable assistance on this Committee, and ■ in 

 the Society's business generally. They proposed to succeed him 

 as Convener Mr Burn Murdoch of Gartincaber, a gentleman of 

 whose qualifications for that duty they had had full experience. 

 Before leaving this country for Canada, Mr Fergusson was enter- 



