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tion that a very large committee lias been appointed to consider the whole sub- 

 ject. This committee has power to appoint a secretary, and will hold its first 

 meeting at Aberdeen on Friday next. Particulars as to the price of the ticket and 

 place of meeting will afterwards be made known by advertisement. Two attend- 

 ing members on each set of judges were suggested at the recent meeting at Aber- 

 deen, and having to-day received the formal authority of the Directors, I shall 

 immediately acquaint the gentlemen referred to that their nomination has been 

 confirmed. Tickets for admission to the yard have been sent to all members 

 resident in the district ; and I have particularly to remind members residing in 

 other localities who may intend being present that they must make application at 

 the Society's office in Edinburgh for tickets not later than Saturday the 18th July. 

 The Society is receiving, as formerly, great aid from Messrs John & Robert Ligert- 

 wood, the local secretaries at Aberdeen. I do not think that I need trouble 

 the meeting with further details. The days and hours of admission have been 

 already for some time published ; and the usual programme will in due time be 

 advertised. 



Agricultural Education. — Professor Balfour reported that at a meeting ot 

 the Council on Education, held on the 18th March, the Society's Diploma in 

 Agriculture had been conferred on Mr Thomas John Elliot, Wilton, Salisbury ; 

 and the certificate on Mr James Taylor, Allan Vale, Pitmuxton, Aberdeenshire. 

 He also stated that the prizes of L. 6 and L. 4, annually allowed by the Society to 

 the students in the Agricultural class in the Edinburgh University who pass the 

 best and second best examination, had this year been awarded to — 1st, G. R. 

 Glendinning, Mid-Lothian ; 2d, G. G. Bursby, Northumberland. The Professor 

 concluded by reporting that at the recent examinations by the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England the principal prizes were gained by students in the class of 

 Agriculture in the Edinburgh University, and that every one of the Edinburgh 

 agricultural candidates took a first prize. There were twelve candidates, of whom 

 six obtained prizes ; and out of the six prize men four were Edinburgh men, three 

 of them having already obtained the diplomas of the Highland Society. 



The Duke of Buccleuch said that the report was a very satisfactory one. 



The report was approved of. 



Veterinary College — Report of Examinations. — Mr Campbell Swinton, 

 of Kimmerghame, in the absence of Mr Gillon of Wallkouse, given in the follow- 

 ing report of examinations of the Veterinary College : — "The examination of the 

 students for the Society's Veterinary Diploma took place on the 15th and 16th 

 April, and were conducted by four separate boards. Thirty-two students pre- 

 sented themselves, and, after a careful and searching examination, the Society's 

 diploma or certificate was conferred on the following twenty-nine : — John White- 

 wright, Corstorphine ; Alexander Macray, Aberdeenshire ; Henry G. Robinson, 

 Greenock ; James Shearer, Ulbster ; James "Wilson, Kirkconnell ; John Grant, 

 Fyvie ; James Cairns, East Wemyss ; Michael Hartigan, Limerick ; James Dob- 

 byn, Waterford ; Jonathan Midgley, Yorkshire : Joseph L. Faulkner, Wetherby ; 

 George Lawson, Aberdeenshire ; George Paterson, Wooler ; George Aitken, Dal- 

 keith ; Charles B. Bostock, Broadbothan, Manchester ; James Clark, Hawick ; 

 William Temple, Chester-le-Street ; John Cameron, Kincardineshire ; Robert 

 Murdoch, Cupar Fife; James Taylor, Aberdeen; John B. M'Gregor, Crieff; 

 James A. Going, Mullenahone ; Frederick W. Going, Mullenahone ; Alexander 

 Gibson, Aberdeen ; George Fowler, Aberdeen ; Robert Kerr, Dairy, Ayr ; Darby 

 O'Gorman, Ballonaclogh ; Jonathan Bunnell, Liverpool ; John Shives, St Johns, 

 New Brunswick. Six silver medals were awarded by the Society for the best ex- 

 amination, as follows : — 1. Anatomy — Andrew Spreull, Milngavie ; 2. Chemistry 

 — Frederick W. Going, Mullenahone ; 3. Horse Pathology — Jonathan Bunnell, 

 Liverpool ; 4. Materia Medica — Joseph L. Faulkner, Wetherby ; 5. Physiology — 

 Andrew Spreull, Milngavie ; 6. Best General Examination — George Lawson, 

 Aberdeenshire." 



The report was approved of. 



Veterinary Charter for Scotland. — Mr Campbell Swinton said he had 

 to report upon another matter connected with veterinary science, in regard to 

 which he was sorry to say that they had hitherto met with Ul success — he referred 

 to the effort which had been made to obtain a charter for a General R,oyal Veter- 

 inary College in Scotland. The members were aware that, in conjunction with 

 the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, acting as trustees of the Dick 



