242 WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
suggested, and he thought that it was generally understood by the 
members, that if they succeeded in keeping the society well together, 
and saw positive appearances of its progress, they would solicit him to 
he their patron. 
Profeasor Gnmgee said he would not press at this time the election 
of a patron, but he thought it would he a great advantage to the 
society the electing of such a nobleman as Mr. Robinson had spoken of. 
Mr. Puttie seconded Professor Gamgee’s motion, stating that the 
society was now in a good and prosperous condition, and that they 
should not delay any longer in having a patron. 
Mr. Dunlop said they were all as one respecting having a patron, but 
they were merely anxious to have the society in a position that would 
do that patron some little honour in being connected with it. 
Mr. Anderson then proposed Sir M. R. S. Stewart, seconded by Mr. 
Steele. 
Mr. MdCall thought that to appoint a patron at this meeting would 
be too premature. He, as an amendment, moved that previous intima¬ 
tion be given to all the members, per circular. On taking the vote of 
the meeting, the amendment was carried. 
Mr. Anderson proposed Mr. Steele as president of the society for the 
ensuing year, seconded by Mr. M'Call. , 
Mr. Robinson proposed Mr. Pottie as secretary, seconded by Professor 
Grim gee. 
Mr. Anderson proposed that Mr. Dunlop should be re-elected a vice- 
president, and Mr. Robinson be also elected a vice-president, which was 
seconded by Mr. Pottie , and agreed to. 
Mr. Robinson proposed Mr. M‘Call as a vice-president, which was 
duly seconded, and agreed to. 
Professor Gnmgee proposed that Mr. Marshall be re-elected as trea¬ 
surer, which, being seconded, was agreed to. 
The following gentlemen were then elected directors:—Messrs. 
Anderson, Cockburn, Sharp, Howatt, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dobie, and 
Blackie. 
Professor Gnmgee then said, that although departing from the general 
business of the meeting, he would ask permission to make a few 
remarks on a subject which should not be overlooked by a body of 
British veterinarians, met as they were that day. He alluded to the 
death of that most distinguished ornament of the veterinary profession, 
Mr. Bracv Clark. The illustrious veterinarian, who had just departed 
this life at the venerable age of ninety, was one of the first students of 
the London Veterinary College. Urged on by his elder brother to enter a 
new-born profession, which had the great recommendation of meeting 
an urgent want of all owners of stock, he laboured zealously to become 
proficient in his adopted calling. His career of study wa§ prolonged; 
and it was only several years after receiving his diploma that he was in 
the active exercise of his duties as a veterinary practitioner. From that 
period, however, to the day of his death, Brady Clark laboured hard 
for the advancement of science, for the benefit of the noble animal the 
horse, which he admired and regarded with the greatest affection, and 
for the benefit of the profession, with whose rulers he did not at all 
times agree, particularly on scientific subjects. He proved himself an 
able entvrnologist, and his careful and lucid researches on the genus 
(Estrus added one great series of facts in Opposition to views then held 
by scientific men regarding spontaneous generation. Although his 
labours in connection with the art of shoeing cannot be said to have led 
to any practical change of great benefit in farriery, nevertheless we 
