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ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE MEDICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The above Society, which has been established for some time in con¬ 
nection with the College, held their first weekly meeting for the session 
of 1879 and 1880 on November 9th in the lecture room. Sixty-seven 
members were enrolled. The chairman, Professor A. Smith, President 
of the College, in his introductory remarks, dwelt chiefly upon the benefit 
to be derived from this Society, and the good feeling that had in previous 
sessions existed among the students in discussion of their various sub¬ 
jects. The following gentlemen were then elected officers for the 
session :—Mr. J. P. Whitehead, Delaware, Ont., Secretary ; Mr. B. B. 
Page, Chicago, Ill., Treasurer; Mr. R. Riddell, Cobourg, Ont., Libra¬ 
rian ; and Mr. G. Dumphy, Assistant Librarian. Since that time regular 
weekly meetings have been held, at which an essay and two communica¬ 
tions on disease and treatment of domesticated animals have been read. 
Essays have been read upon sprains, indigestion, laminitis, tympanitis, 
injuries and diseases of the shoulder-joint, and azoturia. Among the 
communications may be noted cases of difficult parturition, nasal gleet, 
hernia, parasitic bronchitis, navicular arthritis, parturient apoplexy, 
embolism, &c„ all of which gave rise to animated discussion, and from 
which the students derived great benefit, especially those of the junior 
class. Another feature of importance in connection with this Society, 
and one from which the students derive special benefit, is the remarks 
made by the President before the close of each meeting upon the subjects 
discussed. J. P. Whitehead, Secretary. 
Toronto , December , 1879. 
NEW MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
At the meetings of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, held January 5th and 6th, the following students 
from the Royal Veterinary College received their diploma, and were 
admitted members of the profession : 
Mr. William Hastings Farrow . 
— Wm. John Payton Tibbetts . 
— Frank Taylor 
— Wm. John Malvern 
— Frederic Gowland Rugg 
— Nicholson, Almond 
— Henry Augustus Rumboll . 
— George Rees 
— Henry Heyes 
— James Bayes 
London. 
Harborne, Birmingham, 
Cradley Heath, Staffordshire. 
Cheltenham. 
Wye, Kent. 
Great Clacton, Colchester. 
Bristol. 
Llanboide, Carmarthenshire. 
Neale, Co. Mayo. 
Kettering, Northamptonshire. 
Messrs. Malvern, Rugg, Almond, and Rumboll passed with Great 
Credit. 
The following students of the Royal Veterinary College passed their 
Second Examination at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on January 
7th and 8th : 
