THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 133 



it was the only return which they had it in their power to make 

 to those generous medical friends to whose liberality they were 

 so much indebted, he was satisfied their future good conduct and 

 success in life would be the most gratifying remuneration which 

 these gentlemen could receive. To the medical gentlemen to 

 whose kind assistance the school was so much indebted for its 

 success, he begged, in the name of tlie Committee and of the 

 Highland Society, to return his best thanks ; and he was certain 

 all who felt interested in the Institution would agree with him 

 in expressing their satisfaction of the manner in which Mr Dick 

 continued to discharge the duties of his situation. Sir George 

 Ballingall then expressed to the students the high satisfaction 

 which he and the other medical gentlemen present had wit- 

 nessed the appearance made by them on their examination^ 

 and enforced the advice given them by the Convener as to the 

 care they ought to take to exhibit propriety of conduct in their 

 future lives. Mr Dick returned his thanks to the medical 

 gentlemen who had attended the examinations, and in a par- 

 ticular manner to those who furnished his pupils with free 

 admission to their lectures. Without this great advantage, he 

 found, he could not by any exertions of his own have produced 

 pupils who did so much credit to the school as those examined 

 this session. 



Thirteenth Session, 1835-36. 



The thirteenth session was attended by sixty-four stu- 

 dents, twenty of whom were practical men, and of these one 

 was from New York, one from London, and one from Lincoln- 

 shire. Fifteen pupils having completed the prescribed curri- 

 culum, were, after a minute examination, which took place on 

 the 22d and 23d April by the medical gentlemen, found 

 qualified, and received certificates. On this occasion Sir George 

 Ballingall expressed the pleasure which his medical friends and 

 himself had again experienced in attending the examinations, 

 and adverted in high praise to the proficiency of the students, 

 and also to the different specimens of anatomical preparations 

 then exhibited and executed by them. The Convener of the 

 Society's Committee then acknowledged in grateful terms the 

 valuable services of the medical examiners, and the liberality of 

 those who still granted the students gratuitous attendance to 

 their classes, and which, he added, furnished to the public the 

 most complete guarantee of the capabilities of those who, under 

 their auspices, went forth as practitioners from this school. 



Fourteenth Session, 1836-37. 



Tlie fourteenth session was equally satisfactory with any of 

 the former. Upwards of sixty students attended ; and fourteen 



