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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
Viscount Raynham moved, on the J 7th ult., for leave to 
bring in a bill to amend the law 17th and 18th Viet., 
cap. 60, for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals. 
Agreed to. 
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
A meeting of the students attending the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College was held in the lecture room of that 
Institution, on the evening of Thursday, the 4th ult., for the 
purpose of presenting Mr. McCall, Lecturer on Anatomy and 
Physiology, with a valuable timepiece. 
Professor Dick occupied the chair ; and, in the course of 
his observations, he commented on Mr. M^CalPs abilities, 
and spoke of the gratification it afforded him to see so 
desirable a relationship subsisting between that gentleman 
and his pupils, and trusted the same would continue. 
Mr. Montgomery, in the name of his fellow students, 
presented the testimonial, expressing to Mr. McCall the high 
estimation in which the students regarded him for the great 
improvement made by them under his able tuition. 
Mr. M’Call, in thanking the students for the kindness 
they had shown him, assured them he had not accepted the 
office without great misgivings, but he was happy to think 
that his exertions had met with their cordial approbation. 
The timepiece, a very magnificent work of art, from the 
establishment of Messrs. James Ritchie and Son, Leith 
Street, Edinburgh, bore the following very appropriate 
inscription : 
“ Presented to James McCall, Esq., V.S., Professor of 
Anatomy and Physiology at the Edinburgh Veterinary 
College, by the students, as a token of esteem for his abilities 
as a lecturer, and his uniformly obliging bearing to all. 
Session 1857-8.” 
