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highest standing. He had no doubt the results would form a most important 

 contribution to the exact knowledge of the science of agriculture. 



Veterinary College. 



Sir A. C. Ramsay Gibson-Maitland reported that the Society's Veterinary 

 Diploma had been conferred on the following students : — J. W. Wright, 

 Belbrough, Yorkshire ; James M. Eckford, Leith ; Alex. Stewart, Rothiemay, 

 Aberdeen ; W. S. Whitney, Cork ; Albert S. Cox, Manchester ; John Simon, 

 Auchterless, Aberdeen ; Alex. E. Macgillivray, Rayne, Aberdeen ; William 

 Summers, Chardslock, Dorset; James Scrymgeour, St John's, New Brunswick; 

 William Fearnley, Featherstone, York ; Edward Lewis, Great Budworth, 

 Cheshire ; J. H. Hughes, Swansea; Robert Bulman, Hexham ; William Dacre, 

 Manchester ; W. Waterhouse, Brierly Manor, Barnsley ; W. Little, Northcave, 

 Yorkshire ; Robert Meiklam, East Kilpatrick ; James M'Connell, Wigtown ; 

 Archibald Donald, Paisley ; Peter Turnbull, Rhynie, Aberdeen ; James P. S. 

 Walker, Evanton, Ross-shire ; John Burnett, Dundonald, Ayrshire ; Joseph 

 Kendall, Lowick Bridge, Lancashire ; David G. Duns, Dunse ; Maurice 

 O'Brien, Clonmel ; James Kettle, Leith Fort. He said : I have to report 

 that the usual examinations took place about the middle of April, and were 

 carried on and completed with the usual success which has for many years 

 attended them ; and I would express the regret of those persons who were 

 there that the attendance of visitors at these very interesting examinations 

 was so very small. I very much regret to say that my brother lairds almost 

 never attend ; and the examinations are left to be supported by the more in- 

 fluential tenant-farmers in the district. Now, I regret the absence of the 

 landlords, many of whom take great interest in our domestic animals generally ; 

 and I feel certain, if they only knew how great the encouragement of their 

 presence is both to teachers and taught, they would even put themselves to a 

 little trouble to attend ; and when we consider that the examining tables are 

 presided over by some of the ablest men in Edinburgh, I can assure them 

 they can scarcely be there without carrying away with them much useful in- 

 formation. The examinations this year had, I may say, a melancholy interest. 

 The moving spirit in that class-room had passed for ever from among his 

 pupils and friends. I feel quite certain that I express the feeling of every 

 member of this great Society when I say, that every one regretted the loss 

 which the Highland Society of Scotland has sustained by the death of Pro- 

 fessor Dick ; and when I say, further, that Professor Dick was the first edu- 

 cated person in Scotland who made an attempt to rescue the veterinary 

 science from obscurity, I am quite sure we may take the whole public with 

 us as sharers of that regret. There was so good an article tracing the career 

 and life of the late Professor published in the North British Agriculturist 

 within a few days after his death, that I am not going to take up your time 

 by following out his interesting career. But I may very shortly state, as 

 some of you may not have read that article, that in 1818 Professor Dick first 

 opened a class-room in Edinburgh in a small and modest shop in Niddry 

 Street, and so little success had he the first year, that I am credibly informed 

 he had but one pupil. However, those who know the character of the good 

 Professor are well aware that he was not the man to be easily set aside from 

 the path on which he had entered. We find him, accordingly, moving from 

 Niddry Street to Nicolson Street, and from thence to the Calton Convening 

 Rooms ; and again from these rooms in 1833 to that class-room in Clyde 

 Street where he taught for so many years ably and efficiently. Perhaps the 

 best proof of the esteem in which the Professor was held in Edinburgh was 

 this fact, that year after year the examiners who attended to examine his 

 students were among the first men in Edinburgh. I am quite sure this 

 Society will most unanimously put on their minutes their regret at the loss 

 sustained by the death of Professor Dick. In connection with the subject of 



