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FOREIGN VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 
the end of the last century. Inoculation and various other 
means to prevent the spread of the malady were attempted 
in vain: a proposal was then made to destroy all the distem¬ 
pered cattle as soon as the disease made its appearance, and 
to remunerate the proprietors from the public treasury. This, 
however, the depressed state of the treasury, in consequence of 
the war, could not permit. Another proposal was made, to levy a 
small tax upon cattle in general, and from the fund thus raised, 
to defray such expenses as those referred to, and to promote the 
interests of agriculture in general. This proposal received the 
approbation of government, and was without delay carried into 
effect. An agricultural society was established, under the pa¬ 
tronage of government, with branch societies in the various pro¬ 
vinces throughout the country; and has been since in various 
ways employed in promoting the objects of its institution. 
From the abovementioned fund the “ Royal Veterinary 
School of the Netherlands” was established in this place, in 1821. 
A very handsome and commodious building, which was previously 
used as a cotton manufactory, was purchased for the purpose by 
the society, and converted into a college. Stables and other 
buildings were added, to serve as hospitals ; and blacksmiths’ 
shops, for that branch of the profession. 
Within the college there are very excellent class-rooms for the 
various professors ; a dissecting room; an extensive, neat, and 
very choice museum, containing a great collection of skeletons 
and preparations, and other things of a similar kind connected 
with the science. There is a neat and pretty extensive collection 
of chemical, philosophical, and dissecting instruments. A li¬ 
brary, containing several hundred volumes of works connected 
with the veterinary science, and the chief periodicals which ap¬ 
pear on the subject in the Dutch, German, French, and English 
languages; beside rooms for public meetings of the directors; 
accommodation for fifty students, a superintendant, and house 
servants. Attached to these buildings is a house for the resi¬ 
dence of the principal professor; a pretty extensive botanical 
garden; and several enclosed fields for the use of the animals at 
the institution. 
Belonging to the college there are three professors, Dr. A. 
Numan, director and professor of the practical branches; Dr. 
T. G. van Lidth de Jaide, professor of anatomy, physiology, and 
botany; Dr. P. J. T. de Tremery, professor of natural philo¬ 
sophy, chemistry, pharmacy, and materia medica. There are 
beside two apothecaries, an operating veterinary surgeon and 
assistant, a blacksmith, and a person who has the superin- 
tendance of the buildings and the students. 
