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Cattle Pathology. The first Professor of Veterinary Sur- 

 gery was, as we have seen, 



Mr William Dick, who obtained the diploma of the 

 Veterinary College, London, on 27th January 18 18, and 

 was in 1823 appointed by the Society to deliver a course of 

 lectures on veterinary surgery and the diseases of live stock. 

 The first lecture, under the auspices of the Society, was 

 delivered on the evening of Monday the 24th of November 

 1823, in the Calton Convening Room. The course, con- 

 sisting of forty-six lectures, continued to be delivered every 

 Monday and Thursday evening during the season. In 

 1828 a forenoon set of lectures was commenced for gentle- 

 men. In 1833 the hall in Clyde Street was first opened. 

 In 1839, Mr Dick was named Professor to the Society, and 

 the title of School was changed to College. Year after 

 year it was reported to the General Meetings of the Society 

 that, under the Professor, the College continued to maintain 

 its name, and to attract an increased attendance from 

 almost all parts of the world. The success attending the 

 Professor's teaching continued till his death, which occurred 

 on the 4th of April 1866. He was born in White Horse 

 Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, in May 1793, and conse- 

 quently was in his seventy-third year. His parents went 

 to Edinburgh from Aberdeenshire when both were about 

 eighteen years of age. At the General Meeting on 6th 

 June 1866, Sir Alexander Gibson Maitland, in giving in 

 the annual report on the veterinary department, said that 

 the examinations that year had a melancholy interest. 

 The moving spirit in the class-room had passed for ever 

 from amiong his pupils and friends. He felt certain that he 

 expressed the feeling of every member when he said that 

 every one regretted the loss the Society had sustained by 

 the death of Professor Dick ; and when he said, further, 

 that the Professor was the first educated person in Scotland 

 who made the attempt to rescue the veterinary science from 

 obscurity, he was quite sure the Society might take the whole 

 public with them as sharers of that regret. At this meet- 

 ing the Society resolved to put on their minutes their deep 

 regret at the loss sustained by the death of Professor Dick. 



