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schools. We hail it as the wisest and best she has ever 
taken, and one which will be duly appreciated and supported. 
Already she has had proof that her interests cannot suffer 
by being closer identified with the requirements and rapid 
progress of the age. Let progression continue to be her 
resolve, and ere long the science she teaches will take its 
rightful place, and be in truth regarded as the honoured 
sister and helpmate of human medicine. 
THE PRESIDENT’S DINNER, 
We beg to draw attention to the report of the dinner of 
the President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
to the profession, which will be found in our present 
number. 
Meetings like these are too few among us; and of late 
years those who have filled the office now held by Mr. 
Hunt have ceased to honour it by assembling the members 
of the Council or the profession, either around the festive 
and friend-cementing board, or at a scientific and social 
gathering. 
We congratulate the President on his resolve to break 
through the trammels of precedent; and we doubt not his 
example will be followed by others who will be called upon 
to fill the chair he now so worthily occupies. 
PROEICIENCY IN CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have 
determined that, for the future, a medal shall be awarded 
to the pupil who, at the close of his studies, shall pass the 
best examination on Cattle Pathology —scientific and 
practical. We doubt not that this resolve will give great 
satisfaction to the agricultural community, 
