A HIGH HONOUR.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 8

A HIGH HONOUR.

VETERINARIAN'S WORK RECOGNISED. MR A. LESLIE, F.R.C.Y.S. r Mr A. Leslie, M.R.C.V.S., the -veterinarian at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has been awarded the Diploma of Fellow of the Eoyal Collego of Veterinary Surgeons, London, as the result of his important research into tho diseases of slieep in Canterbury. This is the first occasion that this high honour has come to New Zealand, and the comment made on Mr Leslie's work by tho examiners shows that they valued very highly the results he had achieved. The thesis that Mr Leslie submitted was entitled: "Kesults of Two Years' Work on the Aetiology and Prevention of Pregnancy Disease of Ewes in Canterbury, New Zealand." The report of the examiners stated: "The thesis is satisfactory as regards literary presentation and in other aspects, and, together with the other contributions submitted bv the candidate is generally and specifically of such excellence as to justify exemption from further test." The Council of the Eoyal College, London, therefore conferred the Fellowship. Mr Leslie was born in 1903, being a son of Mr and Mrs William Leslie, of Hamewotfh, Culter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was educated at Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and graduated in veterinary science at the Edinburgh University in 1925. He took first-class honours in veterinary dietetics, and second-class honours in anatomy, in physiology and bio-chemistry, in bacteriology and pathology, and in medicine and materia medica. For about three years he had one of the largest horse practices in the North of England, and also had noteworthy success with cattle and sheep —especially the latter—in Scotland. He came to Lincoln College as veterinarian in 1929, and his career there has been outstanding, and the results of his research have been commented upon favourably all -over the world. Recently Mr Leslie attended the conference of veterinarians held in Sydney, and read papers concerning his work af Lincoln College. At the meeting of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, held on Tuesday, the Board's congratulations were extended to Mr Leslie for his notable success.