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the will of the late Professor Dick, makes it impossible for us to 
recognise you as a professor of the college, and receive you as a 
member of its deliberative council ; but this ought to have made you 
all the more anxious to call in our assistance in checking the first 
outbreaks of insubordination. Instead of reporting to us, you have 
allowed matters to go on, threatening the unruly, without carrying 
your threats into execution. We are certain that this college will 
sufter if you continue in your present position ; and with sincere 
regret we are compelled to suggest to you the propriety of relin¬ 
quishing a position which seems to us not accordant to the will of 
the founder of this institution ; and taken in connection with what 
has occurred in your class, is, in our estimation, a position which 
you may not creditably to yourself continue to hold. We consider 
it our duty to forward a copy of this letter to Mr. Fletcher 
Menzies. 
“ We remain, dear Sir, yours truly. 
“Signed, in name of the Veterinary College Council, unani¬ 
mously agreed. 
“W. Williams, Principal. 
“Edinburgh Veterinary College, 
March, 1868.” 
The Solicitor-General, in opening the case for the pursuer, ex¬ 
plained to the jury that, in his will, the late Professor Dick provided 
that any student who had attended Professor Gamgee’s classes should 
be disqualified from becoming a lecturer in the Clyde Street College, 
and contended that, as the will did not come into operation until 
the death of Miss Dick, the Clyde Street College was at present 
being conducted under the pleasure of Miss Dick, and not under 
the will of Professor Dick. He further explained that the chair of 
cattle pathology was endowed by a salary of £100 from the High¬ 
land and Agricultural Society, given on the condition that they 
should have the patronage of the chair entirely in their own hands, 
and also £50 from Miss Dick, and also contended that the pro¬ 
fessor of the chair of cattle pathology could not come under the 
will of Professor Dick, in which no such arrangement as had been 
made was proposed. 
Mr. M‘Bride the pursuer in the action, was first examined, and 
after describing his previous career in his profession, deponed that, 
in the summer of 1867, he had applied to the Highland and Agri¬ 
cultural Society for the professorship of cattle pathology in the 
Clyde Street College, and was successful in obtaining the appoint¬ 
ment. He saw Principal Williams, before he made the application, 
and mentioned to him that he was a student of Mr. Gamgee, but 
Mr. Williams said that the appointment of the Agricultural Society 
was quite distinct from the college appointments, and advised him 
to apply. On the 30th of October, 1867, he was inducted to the 
Professorship by Mr. Menzies, of the Highland Society. The 
Principal told him that he had not been inducted by the Lord 
Provost, whom Mr. Strangeways had told that witness was a student 
