934 
THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OE 
SCOTLAND. 
At the first ordinary monthly meeting of the directors of 
this society for the season^ Mr. Walker, of Bowland, in the 
chair: 
A letter was read from Mr. Malcolm Macgregor^ containing 
an extract from the minutes of meeting of the Lord Provost 
and Council as trustees of Professor Dick, held on the 27th 
September, relative to the election of Mr. William Edwin 
Duns, V.S., Dunbar, to the chair of cattle pathology in 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College. The board approved of 
the appointment of Mr. Duns, and the Secretary was in¬ 
structed to intimate this to the agent for Professor DiclPs 
trustees. 
The Secretary stated that on Monday last he had, along with 
a deputation from the society, attended the introductory 
lecture delivered by Professor Williams, at the Veterinary 
College, when the session was formally opened by the magis¬ 
trates of Edinburgh. Mr. Gillon, of Wallhouse, the chairman 
of the Society's Veterinary Committee being unable to 
attend, he (the Secretary) had congratulated the College on 
the number and respectable appearance of the students 
already enrolled. 
Mr. Menzies stated that a deputation from the Royal Col¬ 
lege of Veterinary Surgeons had requested an interview with 
the trustees for the Veterinary College and with the deputa¬ 
tion of the Highland Society. After being introduced b}" 
Professor Williams, they stated that the object they had in 
view was to induce the trustees and the Highland Society to 
join with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in insti¬ 
tuting preliminary examinations for veterinary students on 
entering at the various teaching schools. The trustees had 
agreed to take the subject into consideration, and he (Mr. 
Menzies, had stated that the directors had already approved 
of such examinations taking place, and that he felt confident 
that the society wmuld gladly aid them in their endeavours, 
but that he would bring the subject before the directors at 
their first meeting. Consideration of the matter was postponed 
till the next meeting of the board. 
The Secretary mentioned that at the request of Mr. Stair 
Agnevv, he had sent for Lord Granville’s use, in taking the 
Pharmacy Bill through the House of Lords, a statement of 
what is required by the society from candidates for their 
