VI PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 



hitherto been encouraged by means of premiums, and though 

 much valuable information has thus been obtained, the system is 

 open to several drawbacks. An experiment may be instituted 

 in a locality not the most suitable for it ; it may be conducted 

 by several parties in the same district ; or there may be a want 

 of uniformity in the proceedings of different competitors. To 

 obviate these disadvantages, it has been resolved to withdraw 

 the premiums offered for experiments with manures, and to con- 

 duct these in certain selected districts, by means of persons 

 specially appointed for the purpose. The most suitable dis- 

 tricts, the most qualified parties, and a perfect uniformity 

 of practice will thus be secured, and the comparative results be 

 invested with a far higher value. A Committee, composed of 

 gentlemen representing different parts of the countrv, will be 

 organized to carry this system into operation, and powers will be 

 conferred on them to lay out a certain amount annually in the 

 purchase of manures, and in defraying other necessary expenses 

 connected with the experiments. 



VETERINARY COLLEGE. 



The Veterinary College continues to maintain its name, 

 and to attract an increased attendance from all parts of the 

 empire. A list of the students on whom the Society's veterinary 

 diploma was conferred in 1864 and 1865 is annexed ; and the 

 Directors have, on behalf of the Society, to acknowledge the 

 valuable assistance gratuitously given by the most distinguished 

 members of the faculty of medicine in Edinburgh, and by the 

 eminent veterinary practitioners who have jointly conducted the 

 annual examination of the College, and whose names afford an 

 ample guarantee for the sufficiency of the test applied, and for 

 the qualifications of the gentlemen who have received the 

 diploma: — 



April, 1864. — William Frater, Hawksland, Lanarkshire; 

 John Dickson, Dumfries ; Joseph Callender, Falkirk ; Robert 

 Burnett, Glasgow; Alexander M'Dougall, Old Kilpatrick; John 

 Milligan, Lockerbie ; Edward H. Heard, Carrick-on-Suir ; John 

 Jack, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh; John Smith, Ulverston; 

 James Martin, Xavan, Co. Meath ; Alfred Challinor, Pender- 

 bury, Manchester; "William C. Liwson, Bolton; William Gould, 

 Pendleton, Manchester ; William Morris, Aberdeen; Benjamin 

 M. Bisset, Brechin ; David M'Lachlan, Paisley ; Thomas 

 Barker, Stokesley, Yorkshire ; George W. Anderson, Rayne, 

 Aberdeen ; Frederick Danby, Holtly, Yorkshire ; Hugh J ones, 

 Carnarvonshire; David Rowlands, Denbighshire; Thomas 

 Stokoe, Hay, Brecon ; John H. Rhodes, Manchester ; William 

 Hall, Sedgefield, Durham ; Thomas Simpson, Aberdeenshire ; 

 Arthur D. Dale, Lancashire; Harry Stone, Leicestershire. 



