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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. 
COUNCIL MEETING—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1860. 
The Marquis of Kildare, Y.P., in the Chair. 
Present—Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Dunlo, and other members of 
council. 
The minutes of last meeting having been read, and other business trans¬ 
acted, the following report was unanimously adopted : 
Abridged Report of Committee on the Re-establishment of a Yeterinary 
Institution in connection with the Royal Dublin Society. 
At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Dublin Society, held on Thurs¬ 
day, November 16th, 1860—the Marquis of Kildare, Y.P., in the chair— 
it was referred to a committee to inquire and report to the council the 
principle on which the veterinary institution in connection with the society 
was conducted, and the cause of its discontinuance; also to consider and 
report upon the advisability of adopting the recommendation of re-opening 
the establishment, and appointing a professor, with a school of veterinary 
surgery. 
The committee, therefore, report that an Act of Parliament “ for directing 
the application of the sum of £5,500, granted by Parliament to the Dublin 
Society, for the improvement of husbandry and other useful arts in Ireland ; 
and for granting to the said society the further sum of £10,000 for the 
purposes therein mentioned, 5 ’ received the Royal assent on the 1st day of 
August, 1800. That Act, among other things, specially provided for the 
establishment of a veterinary institution in connection with the society, in 
the following terms : 
“ That the remaining part of the said two sums of £5,500 and £10,000, 
and all such parts of the foregoing several sums, except the sum of £1,500 
appropriated as aforesaid, as shall remain unapplied in manner aforesaid, 
shall be applied by the said society in procuring agricultural examinations 
into all or any of the counties of this kingdom, in creating drawing-schools, 
exhibition-rooms for artists, repositories for implements of husbandry and 
manufactures, buildings for a veterinary institution, and such other buildings 
as the society shall deem expedient; in paying a salary to a veterinary pro¬ 
fessor, and maintaining a veterinary institution,” &c. 
In order to show the very extended nature of the society’s intentions regard¬ 
ing veterinary instruction, your committee beg to call attention to the follow¬ 
ing extract from the report of the Committee of Agriculture in August, 
1800: 
“ The lectures to begin in January or Eebruary next, on the constitution, 
nourishment, diseases, cures, and treatment of the horse; the lectures on 
the constitution, &c., of neat cattle, pigs, sheep, and dogs to follow at such 
times and in such succession as the lecturer shall judge expedient. 
“ A forge will be necessary for the practical instruction on the modes of 
shoeing; and it is recommended that the professors be not debarred from 
keeping as many as they may choose in any part of the town for their private 
practice, and that for the first year they may be allowed to shoe horses for 
their own emolument at the society’s forge, they defraying all charges of 
attendance, coals, iron, and every expense. 
“ In the plan approved of by the society, provision is made for building 
ten boxes or loose stalls for invalid horses, &c.; these are tor the purpose 
of allowing lectures in the nature of clinical ones, and on the cures by sur¬ 
gical operation. It is proposed that all the animals brought in there for that 
purpose shall be maintained and taken care of at the expense of the society, 
all such expenses to be repaid them by the owner if the cure be effected; 
