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proving of an examination of only a quarter of an hour, and con- 
tending that it ought to be for an hour. He also condemned the 
nomination of examiners made by the Council, and cited a case in 
which one of the examiners did not attend the second day, and 
where the examiner at the chemistry table, instead of examining 
upon chemistry, was asking questions about the pathology of bones. 
He also contended that another of the examiners did more in land 
surveying than he did in veterinary surgery, and that the exa- 
miners sent to Scotland could not even spell correctly the medical 
terms they had to use. • He would point out four examiners who 
were sitting and drinking strong ale together the night before, and 
boasting of what they would do. He had never mis-stated a fact in 
his life, if he had been allowed an explanation. He had always 
selected examiners who were persons of talent and ability, and fully 
competent to perform the duties. He considered one grind worth 
two examinations. During thirty years he had not been absent 
from a class a single day, and had turned men out of the room who 
had made a noise. At his solicitation the Highland Society had 
appointed a Board of Examiners, and therefore he had not been 
anxious to send men into the world as veterinary surgeons who 
were incompetent. He called for the names of the diseases in 
cattle pathology which had been omitted in his school, as alleged in 
the Report, and contended that, in all fairness, he ought to have 
the names. He had himself twice lectured upon “ rabies,” and he 
had not been a party to the application for a new Charter. He 
would only further sa}^, that he thought he had suffered quite 
enough, and that he would show the Council up. 
Mr. Mayhem rose, as no one else did, to condemn Professor 
Dick. He ought to have moved for an inquiry ; but for him to 
come there and say that the facts stated in the Report were false, 
was most improper. He ought to be ashamed of himself. He 
had no standing there : he was there — a nothing. He (Mr. Mayhew) 
would agree that Professor Dick had done much, and had laboured 
hard. He acknowledged his genius, and he reverenced his abilities ; 
but he should not act against his profession, and, above all, he had 
no right to act in the manner he had done. It had been said that 
there had been no lectures upon Rabies, a disease the awful effects 
of which were destructive to even the life of man — a disease so 
extensive among dogs had not been lectured upon. Professor Dick 
knew that upon the pathology of disease he knew nothing. Then, 
again, as to the lectures on Glanders. He (Mr. Mayhew) had 
passed v the College, and knew well enough that there had 
been no lectures on Glanders from Professor Spooner. He 
condemned the conduct of persons who asserted that which 
they knew was false. He would also lecture Mr. Cherry, sen. 
