048 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
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thus called into existence, has been accepted by the family ol 
Mr. Lippincott as a sacred legacy, and a munificent contribu 
tion is annually bestowed on it by them. Thrice happy they 
who can wreathe a father’s monument with fresh undying 
garlands ! 
There is a second munificent contributor to whom the 
veterinary school and hospital owe their foundation and con¬ 
tinued support, and as I do not see him here among y T ou, I do ; 
not hesitate to name him and tell you that it is Mr. Joseph 
E. Gillingham, the present President of the Board of Man¬ 
agers of the veterinary hospital, who, subsequent to the gift ol 
Mr. Lippincott, and equally as unostentatiously, presented 
the school with ten thousand dollars, and whose sounds 
mature wisdom, extended knowledge and unflagging zeal, 
supplement his open hand in all the best interests of the de¬ 
partment. Let me digress here for a minute and recall an: 
incident which redounds to the credit not only of the admira¬ 
ble president just mentioned, but also to the enterpri^ and 
skill of our department. 
Tuberculin, that strange, unknown, mysterous a, 
vised by Professor Koch, of Berlin, was first used in 
country experimentally on animals by the Tuberculosis Goal 
mission of this veterinary department of our’s, and whereof 
Dr. Zuill was the chairman. It was first used in this country 
practically on the cattle of the fine herd owned by Mr. Gifi; 
lingham, and in which he takes so keen and just a pride.* 
After inoculating the whole herd, sixty-six (of course thevj 
were the best, ill luck will always have it so) developed those}; 
symptoms which, if the drug be true, indicated the presence}:, 
in the animal of that dread disease, tuberculosis. Here wasaL 
prospect before which the stoutest heart might shrink, and bq, 
led to palter with the temptation of ignoring the putative., 
tests of an unknown drug, and of saving the animals until they, 
could be respectably sold. But Mr. Gillingham never flinched i 
a hair, but all the sixty-six were incontinently slaughtered^ 
with the melancholy satisfaction of having the diagnosis con-j, 
firmed in each case at the post-mortem. It it impossible to- 
calculate how far-spreading was the circle of disease which 
