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OPENING OF THE SESSION AT THE GLASGOW 
VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The Winter Session of this College was opened on Wednes- 
day, the 26th October, by an introductory lecture, delivered by 
Principal M‘Call, in the presence of a large number of students 
and others interested. Among those present were Professor 
John Young, M.D., Glasgow University; Dr. Adam ; Thomas 
Greave, Esq., late President of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons ; Professor J. Dunlop, M.D., Andersonian University ; 
Professor Robert Wilson; Professor Fordie; Professor R. C. 
Moffatt ; Mr. Cockburn, M.R.C.V.S. ; and Mr. Robertson, 
M.R.C.V.S., Greenock; Robert Walker, Esq., of Letham Hill; 
Dr. Stirton; Rev. D. Brown, St. Enoch’s; Rev. A. R. Storry, 
Carmunnock, &c. &c. 
Principal M‘Call said — Gentlemen, as is customary on such 
occasions as the present, we inaugurate the duties of our Winter 
Session by the delivery of an introductory address to the students ; 
and I have the honour of appearing before you in the discharge of 
that duty. 
To me, gentlemen, the delivery of an introductory address has 
always been a pleasing duty — so much so, that for the last ten 
years, with two exceptions, I have always found myself in the 
same happy position in which I am to-day, and I am delighted to 
say that 1 have never upon any previous occasion endeavoured to 
perform the duty with feelings of greater pleasure and thankful- 
ness. And if in thought with me you cast your eyes back some 
ten years, and picture to yourselves three young men listening to 
a lecture delivered by gaslight in a recess of a shoeing-forge in 
this city, the lecturer with scarcely a friend to advise him, and a 
comparative stranger to all within its walls, and behold, as you 
now do, the same individual, by the blessing of God, comfortably 
housed within his own premises, surrounded by a body of students 
second to none in any similar institution, and although last, not 
least, supported right and left by professional and other friends and 
well-wishers, need you wonder, then, that his sense of gratitude 
should be in excess of that felt on any former occasion. (Applause.) 
But, gentlemen, there is blended with the pleasing as, alas ! 
we all so often find, a certain amount of the melancholy. One of 
the three young men I have alluded to, shortly after the close of 
that, to me, ever memorable first session, was called to study in a 
higher sphere — a sphere to which, I trust, all our labours here 
may finally tend. And since then, gentlemen, death has not even 
spared our small circle. He has seized from among you students 
the pride of the session. He has seized from among us your 
instructors in our day, the pride of our number, if not the most 
accomplished lecturer on his subject, of the present age. I 
refer to our late colleague and dear departed friend, Dr. Penny. 
