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Thirty -two students went up for examination this year on 16th 

 and 17th April, and certificates were conferred on twenty-six. 



At the close of the examinations Mr Hall Maxwell, in pre- 

 senting the Society's medals to the successful candidates, said he 

 could not rise to discharge the duty with the same feelings of 

 delight and gratification that he did on former occasions, for they 

 missed that day one dear old familiar face, the absence of which 

 cast a gloom upon them all. He could not help feeling deeply 

 — more deeply than he could express — the loss which this school, 

 the students, and the public had sustained by the death of their 

 dear old friend Professor Dick, the founder of this institution. 

 He concluded by impressing upon the students that they were 

 the last of those who had been educated by Professor Dick. 

 They should carry that remembrance through life ; and to what- 

 ever part of the world they might go, they should endeavour to 

 do credit to his name and to his memory. 



Professor Goodsir, in closing the proceedings, addressed the 

 students, and set before them the position they now occupied. 

 They had passed through their period of training, and were now 

 called upon to enter on active professional life, and he wished to 

 impress upon them one or two principles which they ought to 

 consider. It was very natural in a student when he got his 

 certificate to imagine that he had completely altered his posi- 

 tion, and had nothing more to do with study. But that was a 

 great mistake. All professional men must continue the habits 

 of the student, especially in these times when science and all 

 other departments of human knowledge were improving so 

 rapidly. The great object of their training in that institution 

 was that they might be able to understand the principles of 

 animal life. They were not there to be crammed with empirical 

 rules for the treatment of disease. The great object had been to 

 imbue them with scientific principles, by which they must always 

 and ultimately be guided. He had put various questions to the 

 students while under examination, and was glad to observe that 

 they had got some grasp of physiology, which they might increase 

 daily with the opportunities they would have. He concluded by 

 alluding to the different circumstances in which the present 

 examination had been conducted from any of those which pre- 

 ceded it. They no longer saw the figure which attended during 

 the whole of the two days, kindly addressing successful and un- 

 successful candidates, overlooking, but never interfering. He 

 spoke of the high professional character of Professor Dick, of 

 the aptitude which he displayed in the cultivation of veterinary 

 science and art, of the gradual progress which he made, and the 

 determined manner in which from first to last he not only 

 attended to student work, but to practice ; moreover, he ex- 

 hibited iu a very marked manner a feature of the real profes- 



