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praise is awarded. Continuing, he offers a series of well consid¬ 
ered remarks upon such of the contagious diseases as have been, 
or are now, prevalent in the United States, in which he does not 
fail to accord due credit for the efficient labors of the various ex¬ 
isting American organizations holding the subject within their 
purview, such as the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Treasury 
Cattle Commission, etc., etc., and, referring cursorily to some of 
the more important of the diseases, as pleuro-pneumonia, glan¬ 
ders, tuberculosis and dourine, the lecture is brought to a close by 
urging upon the attention of his hearers three important depart¬ 
ments of useful labor, in which the special functions of veterina¬ 
rians may become productive of an amount of practical advan¬ 
tage to the State not easily estimated. First, the field which they 
are called to occupy as official advisers of State and Territorial 
boards of health ; second, as inspectors of meats; and third, as 
army veterinarians, in respect to which position Dr. Peters very 
urgently recommends the recognition which is extended to the 
veterinary surgeon in European armies, and for which our Amer¬ 
ican colleagues are so persistently asking for their brethren at 
home. 
This presentation of the claims of veterinarianism by Dr. 
Peters could not fail to prove an occasion of great interest to his 
hearers, and it seems an obvious suggestion that if other veterina¬ 
rians throughout the country would pursue a similar course, the 
effect upon the popular mind w r ould soon become manifest in win¬ 
ning for our profession the intelligent appreciation to which it is 
entitled from all classes of the community. 
American Veterinary College. —In a former number we 
laid before our readers an appeal addressed to the people of the 
. State of New York for their contributions to a building fund for 
the benefit of the American Veterinary College, and it gives us 
great pleasure to say that the responses which have been received 
have, up to the present time, proved to be of a nature so promising 
and satisfactory that the Board of Trustees have felt it to be in¬ 
cumbent upon themselves, as well as due to those who have mani¬ 
fested so liberal an interest in the new movement, to proceed 
further, and to still more strengthen their position before the 
With this view they have succeeded in obtaining the 
