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GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
Dr. Greenfield had attended the meeting of the Committee, and 
stated that the investigations on splenic apoplexy and quarter-evil are 
going on at the Brown Institution. Only four cases of quarter-evil 
had been reported, and about £13 of the grant last made had been 
expended, leaving a balance in hand of £122 15s. 3d. Dr. Greenfield 
specially urged the desirability of members of the Society giving early 
information of any outbreak of splenic apoplexy or quarter-evil taking 
place, as frequently notice was received too late to be practically useful. 
The Secretary had been instructed to make applications to owners of 
stock for professional and other fees, and the expenses incurred in visit¬ 
ing their farms. Professor Simonds had promised some notes on 
glanders for publication in the Journal. The Committee gave notice 
that at the next Council Meeting they would apply for the renewal of 
the veterinary grant for 1880, which would not be drawn till required. 
This report was adopted. 
THE GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The winter session of the Glasgow Veterinary College was opened 
yesterday afternoon, Professor Knox delivering the inaugural address. 
The chair was occupied by Dr. Adams, and among others present were 
Sheriff Clark, Rev. Dr. Johnson, Camburslang; Rev. Mr. Storry, Car- 
munnock: Rev. Mr. Watson, Glasgow; Mr. Graham, Lambhill; Mr. 
Turnbull, Lambhill; Mr. Robertson, Glasgow; and representatives of 
the veterinary profession from Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, and 
intermediate towns. 
Professor Iinox began his address by stating his ideal of the veterinary 
profession.—I have a very high ideal (he said) of what the veterinary 
profession ought to be, and of the respect its members ought to obtain, 
not only from the holders of stock in this country, but from all classes of 
the community. When I think of what vast interests will one day be 
committed to your charge ; that, for instance, one great department of 
preventive or state medicine—the food supply of the people—will almost 
entirely be under your supervision, and the lives, therefore, of the lieges 
at your mercy ; that you will be the chief cultivators of that boundless 
field of comparative pathology and the chief exponents of its hidden trea¬ 
sures ; that it is to your researches the physician looks for the clue to 
guide him in his investigations into the natural history and rational 
treatment of such diseases as rabies or hydrophobia, glanders, tubercle, 
and many others which, to conceal his ignorance, he is content at pre¬ 
sent to term specific ; that it is from researches and experiments in com¬ 
parative therapeutics the medical practitioner is anxiously awaiting 
additions to those means by which he is further to relieve human suffer¬ 
ing and prolong human life; nay, more, when I consider what is to be 
your daily and livelong task—to interpret the wants of the great brute 
creation, to divine, as it were, the significance of its groans, to relieve 
its unexpressed pains, and to give a voice to its hitherto too often un¬ 
heeded sufferings, I feel that your profession is a most noble one, and that 
its members ought to be the most highly gifted and the most perfectly 
trained of our scientific men. But, gentlemen, I am sorry to confess 
that I feel at the same time that as yet we have advanced but a very 
short way to the realisation of this ideal. Perhaps the blame lies with 
others as well as with ourselves. Indeed, seeing how necessary highly 
