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vidual not have studied all alike. Individual dispositions, parti- 
cular vocations, necessities of position, will cause a determination 
in favour of this or that branch of science, and cause the develop- 
ment of special superiorities ; and so, amidst a group actuated by 
the same views and the same objects, diversifying the characters, 
modifying the aptitudes, and resembling, if I may borrow a 
comparison from physiology, so many separate organs, which the 
society use for the purpose of assimilating the complex facts 
brought before them. 
The remainder of the Report has especial reference to the organ- 
ization of the society. 
VETERINARY EXAMINATIONS. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — I n your last Number I addressed a letter to you on the 
subject of the establishment of private or spurious Boards of Ex- 
amination, and warned any who might be tempted to appear before 
them of the position in which they would hereafter stand by so 
doing; but the warning has been thrown away, and some twenty 
unfortunate individuals have taken an irrevocable step, and placed 
themselves for life in the ranks of the farriers, quacks, or unrecog- 
nizable classes with which the country swarms. That persuasion 
and influence have been at work is too clear, and when placed at 
such a distance that supervision is out of the question, evil coun- 
sellors have fearful power; even after the appearance of my warn- 
ing several were gained over, by what means may be guessed at, 
though, perhaps, it would not be prudent to express. 
As announced in the Scotch local papers, we find that, on the 
18th and 19th instant, a Board, consisting of the following indi- 
viduals, met in Edinburgh for the purpose of manufacturing 
veterinary surgeons : — 
Mr. Burn Murdoch in the Chair. 
Mr. Brown, V.S. to the cavalry regiment at Edinburgh. 
Mr. M'Robie, V.S., Stirling. 
Mr. Alexander Watt, V.S., Edinburgh. 
Mr. Balfour, V.S., Cramond ; together with Dr. Mercer, Dr. 
Wilson, lecturer on chemistry to the class; and Mr. Barlow, 
demonstrator to the school ; and twelve physicians and surgeons. 
