A MILITARY VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
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Veterinary Surgeons were conducted within the museum of the College. 
The Board of Examiners included the following gentlemen :—Professor 
A. Crum Brown; Dr. Andrew Wilson, University, Edinburgh; Dr. 
Dunsmure, Edinburgh. The following gentlemen were also present as 
ex officio members :—Principal M‘Call, Professors Knox, Cooke, and 
Macqueen, Glasgow Veterinary College. Twenty-four students pre¬ 
sented themselves for their first professional examination, and of this 
number twenty-one were successful in passing a highly-creditable ex¬ 
amination. Messrs. W. A. M'Gregor, Freeland, Kelly, Renfrew, and 
Martin passing with “ great credit.” Medals granted by the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Principal M‘Call, and certificates 
of merit by the college were awarded in the different branches of study 
as follows : 
Botany. —Gold medal, Mr. John Renfrew, Hurlet, Renfrewshire; 
silver medal, Mr. J. F. Hayes, Portroe, co. Tipperary. 1st class certi¬ 
ficates—Mr. dames Martin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. A. M'Gregor, Pollok- 
shields. 2nd class certificates—Mr. J. Dickie, Paisley; Mr. P. D. 
Kelly, Cooraclare. 
Materia Medica.— Gold medal, Mr. Hayes; silver medal, Mr. Ren¬ 
frew. 1st class certificates—Mr. A. Brown, Neilston ; Mr. Martin and 
Mr. J. Hughes, Ivnockbridge. 2nd class certificates—Messrs. Kelly and 
W. A. M‘Gregor. 
Chemistry. —Gold medal, Mr. Kelly ; silver medal, Mr. Renfrew. 1st 
class certificates—Mr. Martin and Mr. Freeland, Glasgow. 2nd class 
certificates—Mr. A. Brown, Mr. Reid, Beith; and Mr. W. A. 
M‘Gregor.— Glasgow Herald, July 17th, 1880. 
A MILITARY VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
By a General Order just issued, a new educational department has 
been established in the Army, viz. a Military Veterinary School at 
Aldershot. The school is to provide for the training of officers in the 
mounted branches of the service in the proper care and management of 
horses and other animals, including a knowledge of their forage, shoe¬ 
ing, and stable management in camp, barracks, and on board ship. 
Farriers and shoeing smiths are also to be trained as veterinary assist¬ 
ants, so as to render them available for the veterinary charge of 
detached parties ; careful instruction in the principles of shoeing will 
also be given to these non-commissioned officers. 
A class will also be opened for veterinary surgeons on probation, 
where instruction will be given in the routine of military veterinary 
duties, the sanitation of barracks and camps, and the diseases and acci¬ 
dents peculiar to animals employed for military purposes both at home 
and abroad. 
The Veterinary Department of the Army comprises 63 veterinary 
surgeons, and the total cost of the department, including the cost of 
medicines, is somewhat over £21,000 a year. The number of horses, 
exclusive of officers’ chargers, is 14,365 at home and in the Colonies, and 
10,924 in India. Curious as it may seem, the Artillery possess more 
horses than the Cavalry by nearly 500, a fact in which the British Army 
is probably unique. 
A Royal Warrant, issued on the 1st ult., provides that “the officer 
appointed as instructor, to take charge of the Military Veterinary 
School, shall receive, besides the pay of his grade in the Veterinary 
Department, extra pay at the rate of £150 a year.” 
