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did not deserve a name — in the face of this report, and those in- 
dividuals who signed it, I again reiterate a most unqualified con- 
tradiction to its intrinsic truth ; and I further beg to reiterate, 
that the pupils were as rigidly and as extensively examined last 
year on all these branches as they were in the recent exami- 
nations. 
Further, Sir, independent of the appeal you make to the testi- 
mony of the gentlemen of the deputation, and the fact of the im- 
plicit confidence placed in them by the Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons, — to clinch all your remarks, you state that 
the report (the recent report of the Council to the profession) goes 
even further, and asserts that the Professor of the Edinburgh Vete- 
rinary College, this year, protested before the Board of Examiners 
against chemistry being TAUGHT in his class. 
To this assertion I again beg leave to give “ another most 
unqualified contradiction.” Professor Dick did protest before the 
Board of Examiners at the time referred to ; but he did not protest 
against chemistry being TAUGHT in his class. He protested against 
chemistry being considered by the Board as a special subject for 
EXAMINING his pupils on, this year, inasmuch as he had received 
no intimation from the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons that such a branch of study should constitute an in- i 
dividual part of the examinations. 
Had you been aware, Sir, of the real state of proceedings that 
took place at these examinations, a full account of which appeared 
in the June number of The Veterinarian, you would at once 
have seen, on collating these, the absurdity of this assertion ; and, 
were it deemed necessary, I would only place the names of such of 
those gentlemen, members of a veterinary committee of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, as were present at the ex- 
amination in the balance against the name of that gentleman, who, 
on behalf of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, appeared on the same occasion, as to the correctness of 
that published report. I will also farther refer you to the remarks 
of J. Burn Murdoch, Esq , of Gartincaber, the Chairman of this 
Veterinary Committee, made at the general meeting of the High- 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, on Tuesday the 8th inst., 
a certified report of which is published in the Edinburgh Evening 
Courant of this date. There you will find, in the notice of the 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, that this gentleman takes cogni- 
zance of the report of the Council of the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons to the profession, and especially of this protest 
“ against chemistry being TAUGHT in the Professor's class." In 
charity, he hopes that “ this statement has been made through in- 
advertency, and also in some measure perhaps from a misapprehen- 
sion attributable to the confusion of the moment. A more un - 
