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EDITORIAL. 
tablishment of veterinary schools are coming to an end, and 
the institutions that now exist are destined to become in due 
time branches of ‘university study, and placed under obliga¬ 
tion to accept the laws and regulations of the parent curricu¬ 
lum. The two years’ course of crowded studies, begun and 
finished in a few months, is doomed, and until these changes 
are realized, the veterinary profession will never reach the 
standard to which it should aspire. 
We may possibly, from these expressions, be accused of 
a change of opinion, from having some time since uttered 
doubts as to the propriety of a similar amalgamation, but we 
cannot continue blind to the signs of modern progress. Al¬ 
ready, several of the continental universities have their 
veterinary departments, and we have them here; we have 
them in Canada; and it is urged even in England. This evi¬ 
dently shows that as yet the subject of veterinary education 
has not said its last word, and it seems no more than right to 
claim for it the benefit of the enlargement and thoroughness 
which it will enjoy under the care of our universities, as 
branches and departments of the great parent body. 
Professional Items.— The following information, re¬ 
cently received, is pertinent, and corroborative upon the sub¬ 
ject of our preceding remarks. They strongly confirm the 
views to which we have been led to give expression: 
Our friend, Dr. F. H. Osgood, M.R.C.V.S., has accepted 
the professorship of Cattle Pathology in the veterinary de¬ 
partment of Harvard University. He will prove a valuable 
acquisition. Few men have had better opportunities for 
preparation than Dr. Osgood for the work of his department, 
or is capable of doing better justice to the duties of his post. 
And again, it is announced for the veterinary department 
of Pennsylvania University, that important additions have 
been made to the Faculty by the Board of Trustees at their 
last meeting, in the choice in the veterinary department of 
Dr. S. S. J. Harger, as Professor of Veterinary Anatomy, and 
Dr. Leonard Pearson, who is now pursuing special studies at 
the Royal Veterinary School of Berlin, as Assistant Professor 
of Veterinary Medicine. 
