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lege. Twenty-six students presented themselves for the first professional 
examination, and of this number twenty-three were successful in passing 
a highly creditable examination. Messrs Roberts, Gosling, Rogers, 
Ebbitt, Hunter, Freeman, Taylor, Robinson, and Watt, passing with 
great credit. Medals granted by the Highland and Agricultural Society 
of Scotland, Principal M’Call, and certificates of merit granted by the 
College were awarded in the different branches of sudy as follows : 
Botany .—Gold medal, Mr. Henry Rogers, Bombay, India ; silver 
medal, Mr. John Taylor, Cathkin. First-class certificates—Mr. John 
Freeman, Dublin; Mr. Richard Ebbitt, Dunleer, Ireland. Second- 
class certificates—Mr. J. Gosling, London; Mr. M’Lean, Glasgow ; 
Mr. R. Roberts, Colwyn, Wales. 
Chemistry. —Gold medal, Mr. James Gosling; silver medal, Mr. Henry 
Rogers. First-class certificates—Mr. Richard Ebbitt, Mr. John Free- 
mann, Mr. A. Crighton. 
Materia Medica. —Gold medal, Mr. John Freeman ; silver medal, Mr. 
Robert Roberts. First-class certificates—Mr. James Goslin, Mr. Henry 
Rogers, Mr. James Robinson, Bamford. Second-class certificates—Mr. 
John Taylor, Mr. Benjamin Headley, Carlisle; Mr. Thomas M’Lay, 
Glasgow. 
At the close of the lectures, on Tuesday, the students assembled in the 
lecture-room, under the presidency of Principal M’Call, when Mr. 
Campbell, on behalf of his fellow-students, in a graceful speech, presented 
Professor Cooke with a handsome silver jug as a mark of their apprecia¬ 
tion of his ability and merit as lecturer on chemistry and botany. 
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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. 
House of Lords, Tuesday, July \5th. 
Lord Truro having presented a large number of petitions against vivi¬ 
section, proceeded to move the second reading of this Bill, which he 
stated was for the purpose of supplying a defect in Martin’s Act, which 
applied only to domestic animals, and to put a stop to vivisection. 
Earl Beauchamp said the question had been most fully discussed after 
the report of th£ Royal Commission, and Parliament had deliberately 
decided upon the system of licence which now prevailed, and he should 
object very strongly to make any alteration in that law until it had a 
fairer trial than had yet been accorded to it. He moved the rejection of 
the Bill. 
The Earl of Shaftesbury supported the Bill, which he said had become 
necessary from the failure of the Act of 1876. He believed the practice 
of vivisection was as unnecessary as it was cruel. He looked upon the 
lowest animals as beings for the treatment of which we were answerable 
to Almighty God. He cordially supported the second reading of the 
Bill. 
The Bishop of Peterborough said that after giving much consideration 
to the question he had come to the conclusion that the guarded practice 
of vivisection under the existing Act was for the benefit of human life, 
and that to introduce a system of licences would be injurious by removing 
the safeguards that now existed, and tend to produce the very cruelties 
that the Bill was intended to put an end to. 
The Earl of Carnarvon expressed his opinion that if the Act of 1876 
