6l4 GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGIA. 
Botany. 
15 I. How do fluids from the soil enter the roots and ascend through 
the plant ? How is the capacity of the plant for continued 
absorption maintained ? 
12 II. What substance causes the green coloration of leaves? In 
which tissue, and in what form, is it present ? What 
function in the plant economy does it perform ? 
10 III. In what respect do typical fruits of leguminional and of 
cruciferse differ from and resemble one another ? 
20 IV. Give an account of the life history of a moss. 
10 V. Describe the structure of a stem in a fern. 
8 VI. Give the characters of the composite. 
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DICECS VETERINARY COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. 
PRIZE AND HONOURS LISTS. 
Summer Session, 1879. 
Chemistry. —Gold medal, Wm. Watt Dollar; silver medal, Jno. J. 
Doyle; third, R. W. Burke. Honour certificates—John Robt. Beech, 
Clement Burston, Patrick Dundon, John A. Thompson, Wm. J. Powell, 
Thomas Wright, Wm. Fairbairn. 
Materia Medica and Toxicology. —Silver medal, R. W. Burke ; second, 
Wm. Watt Dollar. Honour certificates—Jno. J. Doyle, Wm. H. 
Jones, Thos. Wright, J. R. Beech, P. Dundon, J. A. Thompson, 
Jno. Roberts. W. J. Powell. 
Botany. — Silver medal, Wm. Watt Dollar; second, J. R. Beech. 
Honour certificates—R. W. Burke, W. J. Powell. 
Junior Anatomy. —Silver medal, W. W. Dollar; second, R. W. Burke. 
Honour certificate—J. J. Doyle. 
Practical Histology. —Honour certificates W. W. Dollar, Jno. Roberts, 
R. W. Burke, Jas. Geo. O’Donel. 
Best Essay on the Entozoa of Domestic Animals. —Silver medal, R. W. 
Burke; second, Robt. Lerie. 
GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The summer session of this institution terminated on Tuesday last, 
and on Friday and Saturday the examinations for the diploma of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons were conducted within the 
museum of the College. The board of Examiners included the following 
gentlemen:—Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Dr. Andrew Wilson, 
University, Edinburgh, Dr. Dunsmure, Edinburgh. The following 
gentlemen were also present as ex-officio members, viz. :—Principal 
M'Call, F.R.C.V.S. ; Professor Knox, M.A., M.B.; Stephen Cooke, 
F.C.S. ; and James Macqueen, M-R.C.V.S., Glasgow Veterinary Col- 
