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especially interested, we have a right to demand that they be 
answered. 
(To be continued .) 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION- 
Austin Peters, M.R.C.V.S., Chairman. 
“ Do not repine, my friends,” said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly, 
“ do not weep for me. It is chronic.” 
These remarks of Mr. Pecksniff, Mr. President and gen¬ 
tlemen, seem to apply to me upon the present occasion ; not 
that I am in the condition that Mr. Pecksniff was in when he 
uttered them, but it seems as though my chairmanship of this 
committee were a chronic complaint, when I rise to read its 
report for the third consecutive year. Two years ago I felt 
like a boarding-house keeper who had a nice roast for her 
boarders. A year ago by taking the remnants of the roast 
and adding a few turnips, carrots and onions, I felt that I 
could prepare a tolerably palatable stew, but now I find that 
I have but a few gristly scraps left with which to compound 
a hash, and if there are a few bare bones left over I fear that 
there is so little upon them that a soup made from them 
would be very thin and watery; therefore I pray you that 1 
may hereafter be relieved from the arduous duties of chair¬ 
man of the Committee on Intelligence and Education, and a 
successor appointed with a fresh fund of facts and ideas with 
which to regale you. 
In preparing this report I shall divide it as I did the one 
last year, first considering the subject of veterinary education ; 
and after concluding what I have to say upon this question, L 
will briefly call your attention to a few other matters that 
may prove of general interest to you. 
In my communication of last year I called your attention 
to the fact that while some of our veterinary schools gave a 
three years graded course, the curricula of others comprised 
but two winter sessions of six months, or less, each ; but that 
in my opinion the advantages of the longer period of study 
