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GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
PRESENTATIONS TO PROFESSORS M‘CALL AND FORDIE. 
The students attending this Institution during last winter 
session assembled in the class-room at the conclusion of the 
lectures, and presented the Principal, Professor McCall, with an 
elaborately written address, and also Professor Pordie with a 
handsome diamond ring and gold breast-pin. 
The students, Messrs. Millar and Crawford, who presented 
these testimonials, respectively spoke in high terms of the man¬ 
ner in which the classes had been conducted throughout the 
session ; of the attention that had been bestowed on them by the 
different teachers, and, more especially, of the great care that had 
been taken to render them scientific and successful veterinary 
surgeons. 
MEMORIAL TO THE LATE ALDERMAN 
W. ROBINSON. 
A public meeting, presided over by the Mayor (Mr. Edwin 
Hooper), has just been held in the Town Hall, Tam worth, for the 
purpose of considering the desirability of erecting a suitable 
memorial to the late Alderman William Robinson, and to take 
such steps as might be necessary to carry out that object. 
Amongst those present were Mr. R. W. Handbury, M.P., and 
Messrs. J. Shaw, M. Madan, Brown, W. Desber, J. Hill, S. 
Arnold, W. Arnold, W. Hand, W. Tempest, E. Lowe, T. Argyle, 
H. Hare, J. W. Pemberton, R. W. Nevill (Town Clerk), W. 
Lucy, M. G. Atkins, W. Bindley, J. P. Elliott, S. Barraclough, 
W. Wileman, Burley, T. B. Allkins, A. Clarson, Morrall, &c. 
The Mayor read letters of apology from Mr. Evans (Derby), Mr. 
Mayou, Mr. Skey, Mr. Mallaby, and Mr. Woody. 
Mr. Burley , veterinary surgeon, of Leicester, moved the first 
resolution, “ That it is desirable that a suitable memorial be 
erected to the late Mr. Robinson, and that a subscription be 
entered into for that purpose."” Air. Burley traced Mr. Robin¬ 
son's career for the last 60 years, during which long time they, 
as fellow professional men, had been intimately acquainted. After 
referring to the deceased's many amiable and sterling qualities, 
both as a business man and a gentleman, the speaker expressed 
