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THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
A letter from Dr. Wilson, in The VETERINARIAN of this month, 
is much more deserving of attention, and, with one exception, 1 
have perused it with some satisfaction ; and I consider that both 
the veterinary profession and himself are much indebted to the 
mistake it would appear I have committed, as it has been the cause 
of much valuable information having been elicited. 
The profession, on this side of the Tweed at least, if not on the 
other, was not aware, and I most certainly, up to the moment of 
reading his letter, was not aware that he had been engaged, either 
by the Highland and Agricultural Society, or by Professor Dick, 
to lecture on chemistry to the Clyde-street School. I understood 
at the time that his class had been thrown open, as those of Dr. 
Knox and others had so liberally been, to veterinary students, 
and that he had given medals to those who best attended his 
lectures. Not a word was said at the examinations that could 
lead to the conclusion, either that the course of lectures given, or 
the medals awarded to those attending it — awarded by and in- 
scribed with the name of Dr. Wilson — were provided at the 
expense of Professor Dick. I am but too happy to learn they 
were so, and can scarcely regret an error that had caused such very 
gratifying information to be laid before the profession. With a 
single exception, therefore, as before stated, namely, that of the 
illiberal and unfounded charge of “ systematic and intentional con- 
cealment,” a charge quite unworthy of Dr. Wilson to make, and 
too contemptible for more than a mere denial, I have perused his 
communication with much information, and with considerable 
though not unmixed satisfaction. 
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, 
E. N. Gabriel. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sirs, — OUR attention has been directed to a letter which ap- 
peared in the “Mark Lane Express” of July 21st, from Dr. 
Mercer, of Edinburgh, in answer to some remarks which appeared 
in a former number of your journal, and also in contradiction to a 
paragraph contained in our Report to the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, which stated that “ There was 
no examination on chemistry, none on materia medica, none on 
physiology, none on the diseases of cattle that deserved the 
name,” at the examination of the pupils of the Edinburgh Veteri- 
nary College last year. 
To the truth of this report Dr. Mercer ventures to give “ a 
