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their action, and to refrain from doing that which will tend to lower the stand¬ 
ard of the veterinary profession, retard the progress of veterinary education, 
and lessen the dignity and standing of graduates of American veterinary col¬ 
leges in this and foreign countries. Be it further 
Resolved , That this Society protests against such use of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, and that the Hon. Jeremiah P. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture, 
be respectfully requested to prohibit this attempt to use the bureau as above 
described. Be it further 
Resolved , That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and to each of the veteri¬ 
nary journals. 
[Signed] A. E. Conrow, M.D., Y.M.D. 
Moorestown, Burlington Co., N. J. 
August Dieudonne Theodore Liesering. —We are in¬ 
formed by one of our own exchanges of the death of this 
brilliant veterinarian in August last, at the ripe age of sev¬ 
enty-two. Besides being Professor of Theory and Practice, 
Anatomy, Physiology, etc., at the veterinary school of Dres¬ 
den, Dr. Liesering was the author of numerous works relat¬ 
ing to our profession, among which his treatise and atlas of 
anatomy stand at the head. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND 
EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
By W. L. Williams, Lafayette, Ind. 
(A Paper read before the United States Veterinary Medical Association). 
In studying the origin, development, history, resources 
and future prospects of the veterinary profession in the Uni¬ 
ted States, we should critically examine not alone the pioneer 
practitioners and the veterinary schools, but also every de¬ 
partment of veterinary science which can in any appreciable 
manner affect its status as a whole. 
The teaching of veterinary science in agricultural colleges 
dates from a very early period in our professional history,' 
the pioneer institutions in this matter being, so far as I can 
learn, Cornell University, University of Illinois, and Am- 
