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Botanic Garden, Dr. Wade had been appointed pro- 

 fessor and lecturer. A sum of ^50 and a gold medal 

 were offered for answering at a public examination in 

 Botany, and in the subject of vegetables connected 

 with the feeding of cattle ; and subsidiary prizes at an 

 examination as to hay, grasses, &c. These prizes were 

 to be confined exclusively to farmers, their sons, ap- 

 prentices, and working men. At the same time it was 

 resolved to establish a veterinary school in the Hawkins 

 street premises, for the purpose of helping to preserve 

 the health of cattle, by the study of the diseases peculiar 

 to them. In this department, Mr. Peall and Mr. 

 Watts, both Englishmen, were appointed respectively 

 professor and lecturer, and assistant and practitioner. 

 A forge, dissecting-room, and museum were provided. 

 Boxes for invalid horses were also erected, to be 

 used for clinical lectures and cures by operation. In 

 addition to horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, &c., poultry 

 were after a time to be included. Pending the erection 

 of suitable buildings, Mr. Peall was allowed to 

 engage temporary premises for his operations. He 

 died in 1825, and the veterinary department was then 

 given up. 



In the year 1800, a committee was appointed 

 to report on the plan of the London Institution for 

 diffusing knowledge, which reported that the Dublin 

 Society had taken the lead of it and all other like 

 institutions in Europe in everything except philo- 

 sophical lectures. Accordingly, a suitable room was 

 furnished in the new repository, and James Lynch, of 

 Capel street, optician, was appointed professor and 

 lecturer in hydraulics, mechanics, experimental philo- 

 sophy, &c. He delivered three public courses of twenty- 

 five to thirty lectures each, in the year, and was paid 

 twenty-five guineas for each course. The committee 



