COO GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
than we have, and they have not the wealth we have wherewith to carry 
out their plans. The only institution in this country in which compara¬ 
tive pathology is made a speciality is the Brown Institute in London, 
and for that we are indebted to private benevolence. The work done 
there and the instruction afforded to its students are simply invaluable. 
But this solitary and very small school is manifestly inadequate for a 
great and rich country like ours with such a valuable breed of horses and 
such immense herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. Why should not every 
veterinary college in the country have attached to them similar labora¬ 
tories to those of the Brown Institute, and be presided over by men, if 
not of the calibre, at least with something of the spirit of its superintend- 
ant, Professor Burdon Sanderson. Why should, let me ask again, the 
very elements of education in the primary schools of the country, and 
Latin and Greek, mathematics and philosophy, in the Universities, not 
to speak of the professions of law, divinity, and medicine, receive such 
largesses from the public funds. I may tell you that the two Universi¬ 
ties of Glasgow and Edinburgh alone have within the last few years 
received about £200,000 from Government, while the veterinary profes¬ 
sion and its colleges are still left out in the cold. But it is not only 
money that we want ; we want also superintendence, guidance, and, in 
fact, much the same treatment that the medical profession has received. 
We would be a great deal the better, I think, for a Commission to investi¬ 
gate our position, the means to be adopted both for teaching and examin¬ 
ing students, the regulation of the years of study and of the examina¬ 
tions, from the preliminary examination in education to the final pro¬ 
ficiency. The veterinary colleges might, even in Scotland, at least be 
connected in some way with the medical faculties of the Universities, as 
indeed the Brown Institute is already connected with the University of 
London. This was a frequently expressed wish of a very good friend 
and patron of this college, I mean Professor Allen Thomson, and no one 
can doubt but that it would be an alliance fraught with advantage to 
both parties and professions. It is certainly a point to be steadily kept 
in view. In concluding his address, Dr. Knox mentioned that an exten¬ 
sion of the school in Buccleuch Street is in contemplation for next 
year. You are all aware, he said, that at the present moment the 
farmers of this country generally are in a sad way—they are being 
ruined, they say, by the inclement weather, bad harvests, and foreign 
competition. A Royal Commission has been appointed to enquire into 
their case, and see what can be done for them. It will be some time, 
however, before Government can come to anything like a definite opinion 
on the subject, or much, if anything, can be done, and meanwhile, 
acting on the principle that God helps those who help themselves, 
Principal McCall has determined to open a department for the teaching 
of agriculture in connection with this school. We in Scotland have 
always been famous for our methods of farming, just as we have been 
for our parish schools. But we have found out recently that in regard 
to the latter improvements were not only possible but absolutely neces¬ 
sary, and so it may be as regards farming. At all events, the present 
seems a highly favorable opportunity for inaugurating a course of in¬ 
struction, both theoretical and practical, for the younger generation of 
farmers. In these days of high farming it will prove a great boon to 
many young men in a short course of lectures and demonstrations to be 
put at once in possession of the most essential information as regards 
the nature of soils, the proper food of plants, and the best methods of 
cultivation, with the results of the most recent experiments on these 
subjects. Lectures on all these subjects, illustrated by experiments, 
