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will do well carefully to attend to. I have now Leeu mucli in 

 difierent parts of the country, and have met with many who 

 have studied at this College. I have found that those who 

 failed in the successful jDractice of their profession have done so 

 not so much from any deficiency in their veterinary knowledge, 

 as from mixing in company with which they have no right to 

 associate, and especially when frequenting fairs and markets. 

 These you will require to attend occasionally in the practice of 

 your profession, but let me impress the necessity of being 

 present at such places only when called to the performance of 

 professional duty. The examinations have been conducted with 

 great care, and have been extremely creditable to those who 

 have gone through them successfully, and especially so to the 

 teachers of the College, the utility of whose instruction had 

 been exemplified in the extent of knowledge displayed by the 

 candidates for certificates." 



Professor Dick, in referring to the Highland Society, said it 

 had done much to improve the art of husbandry, and to elicit 

 and promote the best modes of rearing and feeding cattle. It 

 was peculiarly gratifying to him to witness the interest which 

 the Society took in the Veterinary College, and he felt much 

 indebted to such of its members as had lent their valuable 

 assistance during the examination. 



Mr Hall Maxwell said he was con\inced that no department 

 of the Society's labour had been of greater benefit to the public 

 than those which were discharged in connection with the 

 College, so ably presided over by Professor Dick, for the 

 teaching of the veterinary art. He might state also that no 

 part of his official duties did he perform with greater pleasure 

 than that of attendina; the annual examinations of the students. 

 He was much gratified at the result of this year's examiuation. 

 Such of the students as had obtained certificates were, according 

 to the testimony of the very able and distinguished gentlemen 

 who had conducted the examinations highly deserving of them. 

 Some students, they were aware, had not been fortunate enough 

 to pass this session. In so far as these parties themselves were 

 concerned, this was no doubt a cause of regret, but it would do 

 good. It would lead to greater diligence and exertion, and it 

 would at the same time afi'ord a guarantee and a proof to the 

 public that none except persons thoroughly qualified could 

 obtain the certificate of the Society. 



It may be added that the proficiency of the successful pupils 

 was such as to call forth the approbation of all who were 

 present; and Mr Gabriel, the Secretary of the Pioyal College 

 of Veterinary Surgeons, who attended the examinations, ex- 

 pressed himself highly gratified at the correctness and variety 

 of the students' attainments. 



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