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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The following gentlemen having passed their examinations 
before the Board of Examiners appointed under the Royal 
Charter of Incorporation, for Scotland, have received their 
diplomas and been admitted Members of the College. 
April 20th. 
Thomas Michie, Melbourne, Australia. 
Peter Cairncross, Dundee, Scotland. 
Job Cooper, Wetwang, Driffield,* Yorkshire. 
May 19 th. 
Benjamin Fawcett, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nor- 
thumberland. 
John Dollar, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland. 
Lawrence Copeland, Garstang, Lancashire. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
This very useful society, which has from the first mani- 
fested a w^arm interest in the advancement of veterinary 
science, and effectually lent its powerful aid to promote its 
objects, has lately issued its half-yearly report, wdiich is highly 
favorable, and of wffiich we give the following abstract, sin- 
cerely w ishing to the society continued and increased pros- 
perity, since of its national importance none can doubt. 
After some statistical details as to members, state of its 
funds, & c., the report goes on to observe that — 
“ The continued indisposition of Mr. Pusey, and the con- 
sequent suspension of his long and invaluable labours to the 
society as the Chairman of the Journal Committee, have 
rendered some temporary arrangements in that department 
necessary. The Council have accordingly requested Mr. 
Thompson to act as the Chairman, and Mr. Wren Hoskyns 
and Mr. Dyke Acland as Vice-Chairmen, of the Journal Com- 
mittee. The new number is now in progress, and will be 
published on the 1st of July. Prizes have been aw arded to 
reports on the Farming of Buckinghamshire and Warwick- 
shire, and also to essays on the Causes of Fertility and 
Barrenness in Soils, and Lameness in Sheep and Lambs : a 
paper in the latter class has been disqualified on account of 
