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displayed would not readily be forgotten. They must all 

 recfret, as he did, that Professor Hallen was about to return 

 to India, but he was sure they would all wish him prosperity 

 in the sphere of his labours there, — that he might preserve his 

 health, and return to end his days in his native land, and 

 benefit the country by his knowledge and experience. 



Professor Hallen said it was gratifying for him to find that 

 his conduct during the past session had merited the kind 

 expression of feeling from the Lord Provost and Magistrates 

 and the gentlemen present. It had been most gratifying for 

 him to find the students so orderly in their conduct during the 

 session, and so desirous to attend to their studies. Had he 

 not had good materials he could not have met with that 

 success which his Lordship had recognised. The chief part of 

 the merit of the examinations was due to them, and he kne\r 

 that his colleagues would concur with him in these remarks. 

 The rules that the Lord Provost and Magistrates had instituted 

 at the beginning of the session had been found to be of great 

 benefit, and he had no doubt those students who had attended 

 the first session would admit that it was a good thing to have 

 strict rules in an institution like this. 



Professor Hallen having, as above stated, been under the 

 necessity of resigning his appointment at the close of the 

 session in consequence of his being required to return to his 

 duties under his commission in Her Majesty's Indian service, 

 the Directors on 1st May 1867 passed the following resolution : — 

 " The Board cannot accept Professor Hallen's resignation of the 

 appointment of Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society without recording in their Minutes 

 its sense of the value of his services as Professor of Veterinary 

 Surgery in the Edinburgh Veterinary College, and the great 

 regret with which his resignation of that office has been received." 



Mr William Williams was appointed successor to Professor ■ 

 Hallen as Veterinary Surgeon to the Society in June 1867, 

 having been previously nominated by the Magistrates of 

 Edinburgh Principal of the Dick College. 



Forty-fifth Session, 1867-68. 



At the commencement of this session the Society instituted 

 a chair of Cattle Pathology in the Edinburgh Veterinary 

 College, and resolved to give an annual vote of £100 for five 

 years towards its endowment, on condition that the patronage 

 of the chair should rest with the Society. Mr John Adam 

 M'Bryde was appointed to the office, which he held for one year. 



Thirty-two students, who had completed the curriculum, 

 presented themselves as candidates for the certificate at the 



