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elements : oxygen, mercury, silver, lead, sodium, manganese, potassium, magnesium, 
nitrogen, and iron? What is a test for a carbonate? What is the composition of water? 
Air? Write the formula for common salt, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, epsom 
salts, and baking soda. What is the atomic weight of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sul¬ 
phur and silver ? What is the flame test for sodium ? Copper ? Give a test for arsenic. 
Give a test for albumen in urine. Give a test for sugar in urine. How would you pre¬ 
pare sulphuretted hydrogen ? How would you test a case of lead-poisoning in a cow 
from its milk ? 
Anatomy. —Describe the bones of the pelvis. Describe a dorsal vertebra. Describe 
the flexor pedis perforans and its check ligament. Name the superior cervical muscles in 
their order of superposition. Name and describe the ligaments of the fetlock. Name 
and locate the principal superficial veins of the horse. Describe the plantar nerves. 
Describe the regional anatomy in low neurectomy. What is the difference between the 
lungs of the horse and those of the ox and what the principal peculiarity of the latter ? 
Describe the arterial supply of the foot below the fetlock. Describe the cunean tendon. 
How can it be located ? Describe the liver. What is the difference between the kidney 
of the horse and that of the ox ? Describe the common carotid arteries. Describe the 
pneumogastric nerve. 
Physiology. —What are the different forms of digestion ? What is the function of sali¬ 
vary digestion ? On what does gastric digestion act ? What part of digestion is carried 
on in the small intestines ? What effect have the movements of mastication on the salivary 
flow ? What is chyme ? What are the functions of the liver ? What is Heintz’s test 
for bile ? In what way is the coloring matter of the bile obtained ? What are the func¬ 
tions of the testicles ? What other tissues aid in this secretion ? What is the object of 
respiration ? Are the movements of the lung passive or active ? Is respiration purely an 
involuntary act ? What keeps this*centre active ? 
Pathology. —Define inflammation. What is a complete cell? What are the steps 
of inflammation ? What are the terminations of inflammation ? What are the two gen¬ 
eral divisions of inflammation ? What is chronic inflammation ? Define glanders. What 
kind of an inflammation ? Define tuberculosis. What is a cyst ? How many kinds ? 
What is a malignant tumor ? Benign tumor ? What are the physical types of the 
following tumors : osteoma, myoma, neuroma, lipoma? What is leukaemia? What is 
the cause of moist gangrene ? What are the stages of croupous pneumonia ? Define an¬ 
thrax. 
VETERINARY COLLEGE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
New York State Veterinary Cortege. —We have re¬ 
ceived the announcement of the opening of the State Veteri¬ 
nary College at Cornell University, in Ithaca, which will begin 
instructions on September 21, 1896. The catalogue, which 
will be mailed to any one upon application, is quite exhaustive, 
giving the act and amendments which established the school 
and appropriated the money for its maintenance ; excellent il¬ 
lustrations of the buildings and adjunct departments ; the fac¬ 
ulty of veterinary medicine and collateral branches, with a de¬ 
scription of the various chairs, and many other details. The 
faculty of the veterinary college is as follows : Jacob Gould 
Schurman, D. Sc., UU D., President; James Uaw, F. R. C. V. 
S., Professor of Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine, 
Veterinary Sanitary Science, and Veterinary Therapeutics ; the 
