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combined result may, we believe, be expected usually to take place, 
because the best general knowledge of anatomy will, no doubt, 
enable the student to make the most valuable dissection. All the 
dissections were much admired by the medical gentlemen. 
The members of the Highland and Agricultural Society present 
on this occasion were, John Burn Murdoch, Esq. of Gartincaber, 
Chairman of the Veterinary Committee, and Sir Charles Gordon, 
the Secretary of the Society, who were officially in attendance,— 
Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bart., of Ballindallock, Mr. Home 
Drummond of Blair Drummond, M.P., Major-General Mayne, 
Colonel Blanchard, R.E., Professor Low, Captain Macpherson 
Grant, Mr. Hunter of Thurston, Mr. Gordon of Cairnbulg, Mr. 
Lamont of Lockdow, Mr. L’Amy of Dunkenny, xMr. Macdougall of 
Gallanach, Mr. Bell of Hun thill, Richard Hunter, Esq. Norman 
Hill, Esq., James Fergusson, Esq., and Henry Stephens, Esq., 
Editor of the Society’s Transactions. 
The names of the candidates -who, on this occasion, obtained 
diplomas to practise as veterinar}^ surgeons in any part of the king¬ 
dom, and which renders them eligible to be appointed, as such, in 
her Majesty’s cavalry, and that of the Honourable East India 
Company, are— 
Messrs. J. W. Lockwood, York, 1 Medal for best dissection. 
T. B. Tennant, Maybole, 
' neral excellence 
John Irvine, West Hill, Dumfrieshire 
Robert Laidlaw, Dunfermline 
Thomas Mather, Edinburgh 
William Worthington, Lincolnshire 
Thomas Thompson, Coldingham, Northumberland 
Thomas Dixon, Dumfries 
Robert B. Paterson, Dumfries 
George Morton, Edinburgh 
James Sproul, Paisley 
J. W. Charles, Accrington, Lancashire 
Joseph Auckland, Elgin 
Alexander Carmichael, Bradford, Yorkshire 
William Barr, Stair, Ayrshire 
William Allison, Warrington, Durham 
Edward Waldie, West Gordon, Berwickshire 
Alexander Halket, Cairngall, Aberdeenshire. 
The students finished the labours of the session by dining to¬ 
gether, with a number of friends and medical gentlemen whom 
they had invited to join them, in the London Hotel, St. Andrew’s 
Square, on the evening of Wednesday. 
