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be advisable to have recourse to any measure that would be 
calculated to give offence to the President of the Royal 
College of Surgeons or the Royal College of Physicians of 
Edinburgh, by appealing to any authoritative power to deter 
them from acting as they had done. If they took any step 
in the matter, it should be with the Highland Agricultural 
Society, to show them that it was their duty to withhold 
the sanction at present given to an examination instituted 
by a school which was only teaching under the Queen’s sign 
manual, but had no power to incorporate the individuals who 
passed its examination. 
Mr. Gamgee said the reason why Professor Dick’s pupils 
had come to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was 
that they had established a new college in Edinburgh, and 
placed the board in such a position, as to satisfy the students 
that they must have its diploma, so that coercion had suc¬ 
ceeded where attempts at reconciliation had failed. He 
thought that Dr. Craigie and Dr. Newbegin had acted in an 
unconstitutional manner, and he thought a polite communi¬ 
cation should be sent to them, on the assumption that they 
were ignorant of the corporate body; therefore such a measure 
would not be coercive, but really asserting their own rights 
and privileges. If these public bodies were addressed in a 
proper way, the matter w r ould be discussed, and no doubt a 
satisfactory conclusion would be arrived at. 
Mr. Robinson said that Mr. Dick’s board was granted by 
the Highland Agricultural Society as a necessity at the 
eleventh hour. When Mr. Dick had got thirty or forty 
pupils to come before the board of the College, not one of 
them could be admitted, in consequence of a bye-law re¬ 
quiring them to serve an apprenticeship of three years. Not 
one of his pupils could then have been examined but for the 
new board which was established. He did not think that 
they were to be blamed for the steps they had taken. 
Mr. Gamgee said the examiners were not appointed by the 
Highland Society, but really by a letter from Mr. Dick. 
Mr. Robinson said the Society gave him his first board in 
1847, and he had had it ever since. He believed the less stir 
they made in the matter, the better they would be satisfied 
in future. 
Mr. Wilkinson said Mr. Gamgee knew better than any of 
them what it was to deal with a Scotchman, and was well ac¬ 
quainted with the motto. Nemo me impune lacessit. He believed 
that a letter to the Presidents of the College of Physicians and 
College of Surgeons, however carefully worded, would be re¬ 
sented as appearing like dictation. He believed that the 
