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teachers. The masters of the High School would reject or admit 
as they thought proper. If a man was not deemed fit, according 
to their opinion, to join the profession, he was left out. He 
(Professor Williams) had spent a good deal of time about this pre- 
liminary examination. In the Town Council of Edinburgh, with 
all its faults, you would find a majority of sensible men, and as a 
body he must speak of them with the highest respect. The 
Trustees of the Edinburgh Veterinary College were surprised at 
the modesty of the demand of the deputation from the Eoyal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons ; they would have gone much fur- 
ther; they would have instituted a classical examination. In 
consequence of the proposals made by the deputation, he, and those 
who acted with him, put themselves in communication with the 
other veterinary schools, and they were led to suppose certain 
things would be done. These communications, however, resulted 
in nothing. As he had said, their first examination was on Friday 
next. Not one word from the London Veterinary School whether 
any man had been rejected — not one word from the Glasgow School 
had been received. So long as their schools were apart, so long 
would their schools be short of what they ought to be. But when- 
ever their schools were united for one object, namely, the elevation 
of the members, they might expect the profession would be what 
its most ardent friends desired. He again thanked them for the 
very kind manner in which Mr. Maclean had proposed, and the 
company had responded to the toast of his health, and associated 
his name with his alma mater. He trusted that he should for a 
long time to come be at the head of that college, and that the more 
they knew of him the better would they understand one another. 
Professor M l Call rose with great pleasure to respond to that 
part of the toast which might be said to be connected with him- 
self and the institution over which he had the honour to preside. 
Three years ago he instituted a preliminary examination of his 
students, when no pressure was brought to bear by either one 
body or another. This preliminary educational test he had con- 
ducted up to the present moment. About a year ago, when the 
matter was broached by the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons, he voluntarily consented to hand over in toto the power 
not only of examining his students, but at the same time of 
appointing the board. This was agreed to by all the students. 
Professor Williams drew out an agreement to the effect that the 
High School teachers should examine the students of the Edin- 
burgh College, and the teachers of the High School, Glasgow, 
should examine the students of the Glasgow College. He (Pro- 
fessor M‘Call) looked over the document and returned answer 
that he was willing to accept of it. After having entered further 
into this matter, which showed that there had been a misunder- 
standing between Professor M‘Call and Professor Williams, the 
former said, to bring the whole matter into a nutshell, he was 
perfectly agreed to submit the students he had examined and 
admitted to be tested by the teachers of the High School of 
