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but if the professors shall, on application, be allowed to occupy them with 
any diseased or disordered cattle, on their own private account, all the 
expense of food and attendance is to be defrayed by the professors. 
“ It is also proposed to provide suitable dwellings for the professors within 
the society’s ground, and to accommodate them immediately with some of 
the houses which are hereafter to be thrown down; and that there should 
be a covered area for showing cattle, and a room for dissecting in, and for 
students to learn thereby the anatomy of the animal. 
“ It is proposed that in every year after the first a full course of lectures 
be given on each of the animals whose health is a material object of rural 
economy—the horse, the neat cattle, the sheep, the pig, and the dog, and it 
is probable they may be advantageously extended to all poultry which require 
food or attendance to rear them, or to fit them for market. 
“That in these lectures the various breeds now in repute in Great Bri¬ 
tain, particularly of sheep and neat cattle, be accurately described and com¬ 
pared ; their several excellencies pointed out, their shapes marked, and the 
nature of soil or food most advantageous for each clearly explained. 
“Premiums will in time be proposed for the students who shall, on public 
examination, show the greatest progress. 
“ It is further proposed that these lectures shall be accompanied with a 
course from Dr. Wade, the botanic professor, on the nature of the several 
grasses and native plants of Ireland, so far as they ought to be the object of 
the farmer’s attention or knowledge in respect to each species of animal, 
and in what degree they are calculated to give him strength, or fat, or value, 
or otherwise.” 
The committee further recommended that Mr. Thomas Peall and Mr. 
George Watts should be appointed forthwith; Mr. Peall to be professor and 
lecturer, at £100 a year, and Mr. Watts to be assistant professor and prac¬ 
titioner, at £50, their salaries commencing on the 1st day of December 
following. 
These recommendations were approved by the society, and ordered to be 
carried into execution. 
Your committee cannot state what reasons finally induced the society to 
discontinue its veterinary establishment, except a deficiency of funds caused 
by the diminished grant; for it would appear from the tenour of every minute 
which is recorded in the society’s reports that the utmost anxiety was inva¬ 
riably expressed for the permanent continuance of this important branch of 
the society’s operations. 
Your committee beg further to state that they consider that the foregoing 
details prove sufficiently that the appointment of a veterinary professor, and 
the establishment of a veterinary institution, is quite within the province of 
the society; and that, if it was formerly expedient, both for the credit of 
the society and the benefit of the community, to carry these plans into exe¬ 
cution, it is much more so at the present day, when the live stock of the 
country have become largely increased in numbers, and—partly through the 
medium of the society—very much increased in value. In conclusion, your 
committee believe that the re-establishment of a veterinary department, in 
connection with your society, would prove of immense utility to the 
country. 
(Signed) Dunlo, Chairman. 
It was resolved—“ That the report of the sub-committee on the re-esta¬ 
blishment of the veterinary institution, &c., be adopted, and that it be 
referred back to the committee to inquire and report by what means the 
recommendation of the committee can be carried into effect.” 
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