January 2, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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teen men who devote their entire time to 

 teaching and research. Knowing that the 

 state would not require a large number of 

 veterinary graduates in any one year, the 

 college was planned, as you can see from 

 your inspection, to teach from fifty to 

 seventy-five students in each class. This is 

 all the veterinarians that the live stock 

 interests of the state will require for many 

 years. 



The general tendency toward increased 

 eifieiency has been exemplified in this col- 

 lege by the adoption of certain procedures 

 to extend its usefulness. An optional four- 

 year course has been offered and several 

 students are taking it. This was done to 

 make it possible for those who desire to 

 devote more time to their preparation for 

 professional work. We hope in the near 

 future to make the four-year course com- 

 pulsory. There is a difference of opinion 

 on this point. It is thought by some that 

 it would be better to have one year of uni- 

 versity work required for entrance than to 

 have a four-year professional course with 

 the present lower entrance requirements. 



A combined course with the college of 

 agriculture has been arranged so that stu- 

 dents may receive both degrees in six years. 

 A few students are already taking this 

 course. 



The ambulatory clinic was established 

 to enable senior students to visit with an 

 instructor sick animals in the near vicinity 

 of the college. This gives a touch of actual 

 practise in connection with class-room and 

 laboratory work. 



In 1908 there was established an annual 

 conference for veterinarians. The faculty 

 appreciated its opportunity to assist the 

 practitioners of the state by introducing a 

 short course of instruction on the most im- 

 portant veterinary subjects of the day. 

 Every licensed veterinarian of the state is 

 invited. Last year fully 15 per cent, of 



the active practitioners of the state attended 

 this conference. 



In June of this year a course in practical 

 horseshoeing for the horseshoers of the state 

 was authorized. This is under the imme- 

 diate supervision of an experienced horse- 

 shoer who was trained in the leading schools 

 of Europe. 



The research work that is being done at 

 the veterinary experiment station as well 

 as in the laboratories is not only of great 

 value to the live stock owners of the state 

 and of much teaching significance, but it 

 also brings the students in contact with the 

 actual problems with which the practitioner 

 has to deal in the active warfare against 

 disease. It is by these and other methods 

 that the New York State Veterinary Col- 

 lege at Cornell University is striving to be 

 a positive factor in alleviating the suffer- 

 ing among domesticated animals and in 

 saving to the owners the losses from 

 disease. 



Veranus a. Mooee 



STESEOSCOPIC EFFECTS IN PHOTOGBAFHY 



The exhibition of scientific photography 

 which was recently held at Vienna in connec- 

 tion with theAustro-German Medical Congress 

 contains, according to an article in the Lon- 

 don Times, an exhibit which marks a great 

 advance in the progress of photography. This 

 is a series of photographs in which true plastic 

 effect is obtained without the employment of 

 a stereoscope or any other optical instrument. 

 For the various objects depicted to stand out 

 in their true relations to one another all that 

 is required is that the picture should be 

 looked at directly and not from one side or 

 the other. 



The method by which this result is obtained 

 is, briefly, as follows: A double negative is 

 made in the ordinary way by the use of a 

 stereoscopic camera with twin lenses. In- 

 stead of the reconstruction by means of the 

 stereoscope of the plastic image from the 



