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Out of this number four gentlemen, from the superiority of 
their merit, were again selected as competitors for the prizes 
awarded by the Highland and Agricultural Society and Professor 
Dick ; viz. Messrs. Barlow, Cherry, Taylor, and Tennant ; and, 
after a most rigid examination, conducted by Dr. Mercer, the prize 
for general proficiency was awarded to Mr. John Barlow, of 
Wimslow, Cheshire, and that for the best anatomical preparation 
was gained by Mr. Peter Taylor, of Manchester. An additional 
prize was also awarded to Mr. George Dickson Moffat, of Edin- 
burgh, for the second best preparation ; and the Thesis Medal of 
the Medical Society of the College was gained by Mr. Alfred 
Henry Cherry, of Clapham Common, Surrey. 
A most impressive parting address was delivered to the students 
by Dr. M'Donald, of Balyshare, as temporary chairman of the 
Veterinary Committee of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 
and the general audience dispersed highly satisfied with the care- 
ful and scrutinizing method of the examinations, and the very 
great degree of general acquirements that had been exhibited by 
the different candidates. On the Wednesday evening sixty gen- 
tlemen, the successful candidates, and the board of examinators, 
dined together in the Waterloo Hotel, when, “ after the feast of 
reason, came the flow of soul;” and, after a most happy evening, 
the company, at a late hour, separated to their different homes, 
“ happy to have met, sorry to part, but wishing to meet again.” 
No more responsible duty has devolved upon the Council of the 
New College in London than that of providing for the examination 
of students, who, in the language of the charter, “ shall have been 
educated at the Royal Veterinary College of London, or at the 
Veterinary College of Edinburgh, or such other veterinary college 
as hereinbefore mentioned, and who may be desirous to become 
members of the said body politic and corporate : also for regulating 
the nature and extent of such examinations, and for the appoint- 
ment of persons to examine and determine upon the fitness and 
qualifications of such students, and for the admission or rejection 
of such students, as members of the said body politic and cor- 
