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EDINBURGH VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
We give with pleasure and gratitude too, the following extract 
from “ The Scotsman ” of the 21st ultimo:— 
“ Edinburgh Veterinary School .—This useful institution has just closed 
for the season. The examination of those students who were candidates 
for certificates took place in the Lecture Room, Clyde Street, on Thursday 
and Friday last, when seven young men, viz.—Charles Lauder, Edinburgh; 
William Frater, Douglas Mill, Lanarkshire ; Wm. Shield, Arbirlot, Forfar¬ 
shire ; John Murray, Dunse, Berwickshire $ John Fulton, Maybole, Ayr¬ 
shire ; Charles Reid, Strathardle, Perthshire; and Thomas Ritchie, Scotland- 
well, Kinross-shire, were passed by the medical gentlemen who kindly 
conducted the examination. It is due to the students, and to Mr. Dick, 
the Lecturer, to notice the high satisfaction evinced by the examinators, 
and by the Directors of the Highland Society of Scotland, at the scientific 
and practical proficiency of the young men. The medical gentlemen were 
assisted on Thursday by Mr. Castley, the intelligent veterinary surgeon of 
the 12th Lancers, and by Mr. Henderson, veterinary surgeon, Edinburgh. 
The examination was also attended by Sir David Maxwell, Bart.; Prin¬ 
cipal Baird; Mr. Innes, of Stow; Mr. Graham Dalyell; Mr. Scott, of 
Sinton; Mr. Robertson Scott, of Benholm; Mr. Elliot, of Wolflie; Mr. 
Inglis, of Redhall; Mr. Clerk Rattray, &,c.; by Mr. Fergusson of Wood- 
hill, Chairman of the Highland Society’s Committee on the Veterinary 
School; and by the Secretary and Depute Secretary of the Society, all of 
whom expressed their high gratification at the knowledge and acquire¬ 
ments of the students.” 
This is as it should be. The examination of the veterinary 
pupil is a public one. All attend who are interested in knowing 
that the Professor (for there is yet but one in this infant esta¬ 
blishment) has done his duty. The examiners are the heads of 
the Edinburgh University. The Highland Society, under whose 
patronage the school of Mr. Dick is conducted, like the St. 
Pancras school at its first establishment, have not sufficient 
funds to offer proper salaries to professors of the auxiliary and 
subsidiary sciences. They can afford to pay but one teacher, a 
strictly veterinary one—his instructions, however, extending to 
the diseases of every domestic animal. In consequence of this, 
they demand from the pupil a fee, not like that at our school, 
which ought to cover every thing, but proportionate to the ad¬ 
vantages which they offer. He is compelled to remain at this 
school two sessions (two years) at least, before he can present 
himself for examination, and ten guineas only are demanded. 
