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VETERINARY AFFAIRS. 
Mr. W. Wood, Mr. Newbigging, Dr. Gillespie, Dr. Macdonald, 
and Dr. Mollison, and Messrs. Henderson, Tennent, and Young, 
veterinary surgeons. The general result of the examinations 
afforded the highest satisfaction to the intelligent and competent 
judges; and the following eleven young men were found duly 
qualified to practise the veterinary art, and will receive certifi¬ 
cates accordingly, viz. John Purdie, Wiston, Lanarkshire ; Wil¬ 
liam Riddel, Garioch, Aberdeenshire; Adam Pope, Tarves, 
Aberdeenshire ; James Turner, Edinburgh ; Patrick Fergusson, 
Easter Duddingstone; James Drysdale, Weem, Perthshire; 
John Thomson, Murthy, Perthshire; William Lyon, Forfar; 
John Liddle, Brockholes, Berwickshire ; Adam Ross, Inverness ; 
and Henry Thomson, Rosyth.—Before separating, Mr. Wood, 
in name of his medical friends and himself, addressed the stu¬ 
dents, adverting in pow^erful language to the importance of their 
duties, and to the obligations which they owed to the unceasing 
and scientific labours of their instructor, Mr. Dick. Dr. Macin¬ 
tosh also added some valuable advice to them upon maintaining 
a correct professional character throughout life, concurring 
heartily in all that had been said upon the merits of the school. 
The convener of the Society’s committee then acknowledged, in 
grateful terms, the valuable and kind services of the medical 
examinators, as also the liberality of Doctors Munro, Knox, T. J. 
Aitken, and Murray, and Messrs. Liston and Fergusson, in afford¬ 
ing the students gratuitous attendance on their lectures, w’ithout 
^ich, Mr. Dick stated, he could not have been able to impart 
knowledge which the students had acquired. The convener 
also adverted to the commodious and elegant hall wdiich had been 
erected by Mr. Dick, and in which they had now for the first 
time assembled, as being both useful and ornamental, and reflect¬ 
ing much credit upon the public spirit of Mr. Dick, and upon 
the judgment and taste of Messrs. Dickson, the architects w’ho 
designed it 
CONCOURS FOR THE SITUATION OF ASSISTANT-PROFESSOR 
OF ANATOMY AT THE SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
. ' (Recueil de Medecine Vdterinaire.) 
' This meeting, the programme of which w^e have published in 
one of our preceding Numbers, is terminated ; and in saying that 
it was the most remarkable one that has hitherto taken place, 
and that it reflected honour on all the candidates who presented 
themselves, w'e express the opinions of every one who was present. 
The Alfort School has reason to be proud, for four of the candi¬ 
dates were its pupils. 
Five competitors entered their names; they were all inserted in 
