334 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 



tions in two years, the next in three, respectively. I can not give 

 the number of students at the Berlin school, but it is not far from two 

 hundred. A private letter informs me that there are to be one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five in the dissecting-room in the study of anatomy 

 this winter. The fees are very small ; for the three years I was there 

 as a student, and the extra year, including the examination-fee, they 

 were not over one hundred dollars. All material necessary for 

 study is supplied by the Government free of expense to the students, 

 including the use of the microscopes. 



The course of study and terms of examination are the same for 

 all the schools in the empire, and were revised and published March 

 27, 1878. I consider they can well serve as a model for the founda- 

 tion of a school in this country, with but few modifications. There 

 is no matriculation examination for foreigners, but they must stand 

 the regular examination without change or favor. There is no need 

 of a matriculatory examination for Germans, as they are only taken 

 from classes of certain public schools, and the standard is fixed 

 much higher than in nearly all other Continental schools. The 

 school at Berlin will not, however, be what it should be until it is 

 united with the university, which will give it a greater number of 

 special instructors in the natural sciences, at but little extra expense 

 to the Government. 



The following are the regulations for the admittance and exami- 

 nation of the students, and are taken from the " Central-Blatt f iir 

 das Deutsche Reich," herausgegeben in Reichskanzler-Amt, April 

 5, 1878 : 



I. Central powers which can give the diploma to veterinarians : 

 The diploma for veterinarians for the German Empire can only 



be given by the central j)owers (" Centralbehorden ") of such states 

 of the empire in which one or more veterinary schools are situated ; 

 consequently, at the present time, by the appropriate ministers of 

 Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, "Wurtemberg, and Hesse. (There is no 

 independent school in Hesse, but the university at Giessen has a vet- 

 erinary department.) 



II. Regulations with reference to the qualifications of candidates : 

 The veterinary diploma is only to be given to such candidates 



as have satisfactorily stood the fixed examination. 



The examination is divided into two parts : 1. In the natural 

 sciences ; and, 2. In the technical branches of study. 



The examination must take place at a German veterinary insti- 

 tute. 



The examining body consists of the directors and teachers of the 



