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toast, of the Royal College he coupled health and prosperity to their 
worthy President (applause). 
The President responded to the compliment which had been paid him. 
Speaking of the gratifying progress made, he, nevertheless, thought the 
College had not advanced quite so rapidly as was desirable. The ex¬ 
tension of the curriculum was the result of a great fight, in which they 
had received the warmest support and encouragement from the High¬ 
land Society. He endorsed the views of Professor Turner regarding 
the desirability of an entrance examination, which had also been ap¬ 
proved at their annual meeting. The test, in his opinion, should not be 
high at first, but uniform, and should be governed and regulated by the 
Royal College (hear, hear). 
Major-General Sir F. Fitzwygram , Bart., in proposing “The Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland,” spoke of the fame of Edinburgh 
and her medical and veterinary schools as having been largely due to 
the disinterested action of the Highland Society. The present meeting 
was the result of endeavours which had for several years been made to 
bring to an end the asperities and animosities, he might say, which had long 
divided and detracted from the usefulness and progress of the veterinary 
profession. To the action of the Highland Society was it due that they 
were now enabled to speak as a unity, and he trusted they might hope 
for marked progress in the future (hear, hear). Every member of the 
profession had now not only an equal right to vote, but equal power in 
selecting representatives to sit in their Council, which now fairly and 
truly represented the entire body of the profession (hear, hear). They 
were now about to apply to the Legislature for a Bill to protect them 
against unqualified and unlicensed practitioners. Protection of their 
profession, if they simply asked it for themselves, might perhaps meet 
with little sympathy at the hands of the new House of Commons; but 
if they urged it on the grounds of justice and humanity in the interests 
of the lower animals of God’s creation, he trusted they would be able 
to succeed. It was scarcely more than half a century since the late 
Professor Dick instituted in the city the first veterinary school ever 
known in Scotland (applause)—a school which lived and flourished and 
still bore its honored name (hear, hear). Now there were in Scotland 
no less than three veterinary schools, which could compare with any of 
the kind in Europe (hear). And he was sure they would all hear with 
pleasure that Her Majesty’s Government, in instituting a new Veteri¬ 
nary College at Aldershot, for the instruction of officers of the army, 
and through them of others throughout England, had, on the recom¬ 
mendation of the Secretary of the War Department, selected for the 
new institution a distinguished number of the old Clyde Street School 
(applause). Thanks to the union now between the Royal College and 
the Highland Society, they had now a thoroughly representative Council 
of all the branches of their profession; and the future was in their own 
hands (applause). 
Mr. F. JV. Menzies , Secretary of the Highland and Agricultural 
Society, in responding, said he did so with some diffidence, not because 
the task was new to him, but because it was the first occasion on which 
he had been called upon to return thanks where the Highland and 
Agricultural Society had divested itself of some of its privileges. At 
the same time he thought he might say that the Society was in honour 
bound to meet the views of the veterinary profession (hear, hear). The 
Highland Society gave its patronage to the veterinary profession from 
no interested motives. It was purely and simply from a desire to raise 
that profession to the best of its ability; and what the Society did to 
