COMMENCEMENTS- 
as 
Physiology. —Prof. G. O. Beaudry, M. D., Victoria College, 
viz.: Hilaire Bisaillon, N. A. Trudel and T. H. Bergeron. 
Chemistry. —Prof. E. D. D’Orsenneus, Victoria College, viz.: 
Hilaire Bisaillon, N. A. Trudel and T. H. Bergeron. 
As each of the prizemen came up for his well-won honors, his 
fellow students gave vent to their pleasure in loud applause. 
Mr. M. F. Billings, of Boston, was called upon by the Chairman 
to address the students. He said that he felt highly honored at 
being present, and had to thank his friend, Dr. McEachran, for 
giving him that pleasure. He confessed that when he started for 
Montreal to assist at the examinations of the V. C. lie was rather 
sceptical of the results in consequence of his experience in his 
own country, but he was glad to say that his scepticism had all 
fled, for such an examination as the students of the Montreal 
Veterinary College had passed did honor not only to themselves 
but also to those to whom was intrusted the instruction. (Cheers.) 
He was glad to find the students w T ere so well up in their studies, 
and that they understood the main thing in Veterinary Surgery, 
that was, the nature of diseases. He was pleased, indeed, to find 
so high a standard aimed at in the College, and trusted those now 
graduating would do all in their power to uphold the College and 
profession. (Cheers.) He was so well pleased with everything 
that had come under his notice that he wished it understood that 
he would be one of the three to give a prize next year for the 
best student in General Pathology. (Loud cheers.) 
Principal Dawson was now called, and was received with 
warm applause. He remarked that it gave him great pleasure to 
attend the examinations of the V. C., although his time was well 
taken up with the examination at McGill; still, his sympathy for 
the good work that was being carried on in the V. C. was such 
that he always managed to spare a little time to be with them. 
(Cheers.) He was in a measure closely identified with them, for 
their profession was, in a measure, much in sympathy with 
science. His sympathy was more with those who studied the 
anatomy of the lower animals than the human, from the fact that 
the former were, from the nature of things, unable to say where 
or what was the place or nature of their disease. The highest 
