THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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Mr. Burn Murdoch, of Gartincaber, as chairman of the Ve- 
terinary College Committee, reported, in reference to that insti- 
tution, stating that he was glad to be able to mention its continued 
prosperity. There were now sixty-six pupils attending the 
College, of whom thirty were practical students, fifteen of them 
being English, one of them a Russian from St. Petersburgh, and 
the rest Scotch and Irish. He begged, in making this statement, 
to move the payment of the usual yearly grant. On this occasion 
he found it necessary also to mention that there had been published 
a Report of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of London, 
in which a great mis-statement appeared. They were aware that 
a committee was appointed to attend the examination of the vete- 
rinary students. It so happened that, before they were examined, 
the Professor (Mr. Dick) objected to chemistry being recognized 
on that occasion as a necessary part of the examination, on the 
ground that it had not been customary to do so, and that no notice 
of any change had been given to him or to his pupils. His objec- 
tion was not to teaching chemistry, but only to its being held as a 
part of the curriculum in that examination. The fact was, that 
so far from objecting to chemistry forming a part of the course of 
study, Mr. Dick had himself instituted a chemical chair in the 
College, which was held by Dr. Wilson, now in the room. The 
objectionable statement was as follows : — “ The Highland Agri- 
cultural Society has already come forward to assist the Council in 
their endeavours to advance the education of the pupil on these 
important subjects, by giving a silver medal to the pupil who shall 
pass the best examination in chemistry, and this too, be it remem- 
bered, in the face of a protest from the professor of the school they 
patronize and protect against such a subject being taught in his 
class” He merely mentioned this to disabuse the minds of any 
persons present into whose hands this report might fall. He 
hoped the statement had occurred through inadvertency, and also 
in some measure perhaps from a misapprehension attributable to 
the confusion of the moment. A more unfounded statement never 
was put upon a public record . Mr. Dick had given a medal for 
the study, and it was sufficient to state that fact in order to shew 
that he had no objection to the cultivation of the science. The 
meeting unanimously agreed to the motion made by Mr. Murdoch 
for the usual yearly grant. 
The Cattle Epidemic. 
In the preliminary notice to the present volume of the “ Trans- 
actions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland,” 
published in the July number of the “ Quarterly Journal of Agri- 
