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552 AUSTIN PETERS. 
profit by the instruction he is to receive. We should only 
admit to membership men who graduate from schools that 
meet with our approval, and in this way we can perpetuate , 
this Association as a body of enlightened, learned men, ready 
to do all in their power for the advancement and welfare of 
veterinary science, and always striving for the improvement 
and well being of a humane and useful profession. 
These requirements are now met by the Veterinary De¬ 
partments of Magiil University, the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania and Harvard University; and the American Veterinary 
College is about to inaugurate a three years’ course. Its 
faculty have for some time realized the importance of the 
change, but until recently the facilities of the school were in¬ 
sufficient to meet this demand. On the other hand, we have 
an ever-increasing number of the veterinary colleges pure 
and simple, with two winter sessions of six months each, and 
also the veterinary departments of agricultural colleges and 
State universities which, while they meet with our views as 
regards length of course and matriculation requirements, are 
deficient in the number of their veterinary necessities and the 
clinical advantages that they are enabled to furnish for their 
students, and in some instances the means for the acquirement 
of a knowledge of anatomy by work in the dissecting-room 
is woefully lacking. 
The following is a list of the veterinary colleges not 
already mentioned that are exclusively such. I do not know 
whether it is complete or not, but any additions or correc¬ 
tions I shall be glad to receive. In Canada there are, besides 
the Veterinary Department of Magiil University, three 
schools, two of which are French, l’Ecole Veterinaire de Que¬ 
bec, and l’Ecole Veterinaire Frangaise de Montreal, a branch 
of Laval University ; the other institution is the Ontario Vet¬ 
erinary College of Toronto. 
In the United States there is the New York College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, at New York, the Chicago Veterinary 
College; the Veterinary Department of the Detroit College 
of Medicine; the Ohio Veterinary College, at Cincinnati; 
the Iowa Veterinary College, at Des Moines; and the Kan¬ 
sas City Veterinary College. 
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