VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 
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2rst. Prof. Law was employed to come from England in 
>68 to assume the chair of veterinary science at Cornell, 
hich he continues to honorablv fill, and at about the same 
tne Dr. Detmers, now of Ohio University, became lecturer 
1 Veterinary Science in the University of Illinois, followed 
few years later by Dr. F. H. Prentice, and about 1869 it 
>pears that Dr. Stickney became lecturer on veterinary 
ience at Amherst. 
It is well known that these agricultural colleges with lec- 
re or professorships of veterinary science, were largely the 
suit of the Act of Congress of 1862, donating public lands 
such States and Territories as would ’provide colleges for 
e teaching of agriculture and the mechanic arts. These 
ere given a still greater impetus in 1887 by the Act of Con¬ 
fess establishing agricultural experiment stations in connec- 
on with agricultural colleges, for original research into “ the 
lysiology of plants and animals, the diseases to which they 
;e severally subject, with the remedies for the same,” etc. 
As a result of these inducements, we find that at present 
uenty-two agricultural schools have lectures regularly de- 
] r ered on veterinary science to students of agriculture, while 
1 r o colleges conduct regularly organized veterinary depart- 
lents with a total of six veterinarians, making in all twenty- 
t*ht veterinarians regularly engaged in teaching veterinary 
sience in colleges or universities, owing their origin and 
aintenance largely to the federal legislation above cited. Of 
tsse twenty-eight veterinarians, seventeen are employed as 
Uerinarians to experiment stations, and to these are to be 
tded seven station veterinarians who maintain no relation 
t the teaching force of the colleges, constituting a total of 
tirty-five persons employed in these institutions either in 
tiching veterinary science or investigating animal diseases. 
Empared with the total number of veterinarians, it is true 
tsir numbers are small, but when it is remembered that the 
[rties in control of such institutions are presumed to seek 
ct from among the masses those veterinarians showing the 
Uhest proficiency and greatest earnestness and progressive¬ 
's and, further, that in such institutions the incumbents in 
