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which henceforth may be expected to be placed on a far more 
satisfactory basis, and to offer still greater advantages for the 
cultivation of veterinary science. Miss Dick was born on 1st 
June 1791, at Whitehorse Close, Edinburgh, where her father, 
who was a blacksmith, had a forge. Her reminiscences of old 
Edinburgh were very entertaining. She used to relate that she 
had been offered the perusal of several of Scott’s novels while 
yet only in MS., but had declined to read them both then and 
ever afterwards. This is doubtless to be explained by the fact 
that her political and ecclesiastical proclivities lay from the first 
in a direction diametrically opposed to those of Sir Walter Scott. 
At the age of twelve she crossed the Firth in an open boat to 
Kirkcaldy, paying 2s. for her passage, part of which consisted in 
being carried from the boat to the landing place on the boat¬ 
men’s shoulders. Through her brother she enjoyed a very exten¬ 
sive acquaintanceship both at home and abroad, which she kept 
up to the last, every day posting and receiving a considerable 
number of newspapers and correspondence bearing mainly on 
public questions. She was an ardent Liberal, and advocated 
female suffrage; greatly satirical on modern extravagance and 
effeminacy ; boasting, for example, that she had never taken a 
walk for health in her life, and that she had never had a cough. 
Her funeral takes place to-morrow, when Her remains will be in¬ 
terred in the Calton Burying-ground, Edinburgh .—Scotsman 
July 17, 1883. 
Bequests to the Dick Veterinary College and the Uni¬ 
versity of Edinburgh. —Under the will of Miss Mary Dick, 
sister of the late Professor Dick, founder of the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College of that name, it is, we understand, provided, 
after the payment of £100 to the Society for the Benefit of 
Widows of Veterinary Surgeons and certain other legacies, that 
the residue of her estate, with the accumulations of the free in¬ 
come to be derived from the same, shall be held by the trustees 
of the testatrix uutil it amounts to £20,000, when it shall be 
divided into two equal portions, £10,000 being applied in the 
furtherance of veterinary science in connection with the Veteri¬ 
nary College in Clyde Street, and the other £10.000 in the found- 
