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passage of a special act by the Legislature, authorizing the en¬ 
tire reorganization of the college, together with a legal recogni¬ 
tion of the work already accomplished by the institution, with 
such additional privileges as will suffice to place it upon a footing 
of equality with the best schools in the country, if not indeed en¬ 
dowing it with some privileges which will place it in advance of 
most of its colleagues. 
The announcement for the fourteenth year of the existence 
of the American Veterinary College is before us, with its new 
charter, and we find in it an ample and clear statement of the 
objects chiefly contemplated by its officers as most desirable of 
accomplishment by the members of the classes who shall here¬ 
after attend its sessions, and seek its diploma. The principal 
point of interest is that which relates to the requirements for 
graduation, which are now regulated by law, and which will re¬ 
quire a full three years’ course of medical and veterinary study, 
as a preliminary condition of examination for the degree of 
matriculation. This is a long step in the right direction, and one 
which goes far towards satisfying the long expressed desire of the 
veterinary profession at large for a better and more thorough 
standard of education. 
Changes in the Faculty. —Pfofessor C. B. Michener, for a 
number of years a member of the faculty of the American Veteri¬ 
nary College, as Professor of Cattle Pathology, Obstetrics, 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, has retired from his connec¬ 
tion with that institution. Hereafter, the various branches 
formerly supervised by him will be placed in charge of two sep¬ 
arate chairs, one of which will be known as the professorship of 
Cattle Pathology and Obstetrics, while the other will constitute 
that of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
Another Death from Glanders in Man.— Dr. E. R. Allen, 
from Kansas City, has sent us the history and report of the dis¬ 
ease of a man, T. Turner, who has died from glanders after a week 
of suffering. The poor man was in the habit of doctoring glan- 
dered horses, and for a remedy blew salts from his mouth into the 
animal’s nostrils. He inoculated himself in some way and death 
was the result. 
