THE HIGHLAND AND AGUiCULTUrwVL SOCIETY. 169 



close of the session. The practical clinical examination, which 

 was inaugurated last year, was an important feature in the 

 examinations this year. As the result of the examinations, 

 which were held on the loth and 16th April 1868, certificates 

 were conferred on twenty-nine students. 



At the close of the business ]Mr Gillon of Wallhouse 

 expressed the great interest the Society felt in the veterinary 

 profession, and in the progress made in veterinary science. He 

 was proud to see so many students coming forward to strive 

 to gain this certificate. It was also matter of congratulation 

 to observe the prosperity of the Edinburgh Veterinary College, 

 for they must all remember how very recently the College had 

 been subjected to no ordinary trials — namely, the loss of its 

 distinguished founder. Professor Dick, and since that sad event, 

 its having had twice to change its Principal. Such trials and 

 losses might have shaken the foundations of many older and 

 surer buildings, but it seemed to him that the distinguished 

 Professor who had bequeathed to the College his worldly goods 

 and property liad also bequeathed much of that pith and energy 

 ■ of character which he had manifested during a long and useful 

 career. Mr Gillon concluded his address with some remarks in 

 regard to a veterinary charter for Scotland. 



The Lord Provost, after alluding to the continued prosperity 

 of the College and the efforts being made to obtain a separate 

 charter for Scotland, said in the meantime they must do their 

 best with the certificate granted by the Highland Society. 



Forty -sixth Session, 1868-69. 



Ninety-six students attended the College during the forty- 

 sixth session ; and at the examinations, which were held on the 

 14th and loth April 1869, the certificate was conferred on twenty- 

 nine. 



At the close of the examinations, Bailie Miller, who occupied 

 the chair in the absence of the Lord Provost, congratulated the 

 Principal and his coadjutors in the College on the very 

 successful results of the session. It was satisfactory to know 

 that the different departments had been conducted in such a 

 successful manner as to merit their warmest commendation. 

 It was also worthy of notice that the students this year had 

 been of a superior class, and had done credit to themselves and 

 to the College by tlieir exemplary conduct and behaviour. In 

 the midst of these encouraging circumstances and signs of 

 prosperity, however, he had to express the great loss the 

 College had sustained by the untimely death of Mr Strangeways 

 — an especial favourite of Professor Dick. 



