448 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mv J. H. B. H ALLEN was elected to succeed Professor 

 Dick at the General Meeting on i6th January 1867; but 

 he was under the necessity of resigning the appointment at 

 the close of his first session, in consequence of his being 

 required to return to his duties under his commission in 

 Her Majesty's Indian Service. The Directors, on ist May, 

 passed a resolution, in which they recorded that they 

 ' cannot accept Professor Hallen's resignation of the 

 appointment of Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society without recording in 

 their minutes its sense of the value of his services as 

 Professor of Veterinary Surgery in the Edinburgh Veteri- 

 nary College, and the great regret with which his resigna- 

 tion of that office has been received.' Mr Hallen has been 

 for several years Staff Veterinary Surgeon to Her Majesty's 

 Bombay Arm}^ 



Mr William Williams was appointed Professor 

 Hallen's successor at the General Meeting, 19th June 1867. 

 He was then at the head of the Dick College ; and is now 

 Principal of the new Veterinary College, and President of 

 the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 



Mr John Adam M'Bride was in 1867 appointed 

 Professor of Cattle Pathology to the Society, the Directors 

 having that year resolved, with the sanction of a General 

 Meeting, to give an annual vote of ;^ioo for five years 

 towards the establishment of a Chair of Cattle Pathology 

 in connexion with the Dick College — then the only Veteri- 

 nary School in Edinburgh. He held the office for one 

 year ; and was succeeded by 



Mr William E. Duns, whose election did not take 

 place till 1869, the chair having been for some time vacant. 

 At his death in 1 871, he was succeeded by 



Mr Thomas Walley, who was nominated ist No- 

 vember that year. The term for which the grant was voted 

 expired in 1874, and the appointment is now an honorary 

 one. Mr Walley was subsequently elected Principal of the 

 Dick College. 



