APPEAL. 
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who have been previously graduated by an institution where a 
similar educational course obtains, and then it is considered not 
as a graduatmg document, but as one of membership merely. 
As far as veterinary honorary degrees of this nature are con¬ 
cerned, we know of but one institution which may be considered 
as having granted them, viz.: the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons in England ; and certainly in this case the title is not 
one of graduation , as implied in the inquiry, but of fellowship 
only to persons already graduates of veterinary medicine. 
Crowded Pages. —The preoccupation of our pages in the 
present number excludes several articles of importance and inter¬ 
est, which we would have liked to include in our table of con¬ 
tents for the current month. These will receive justice in our 
February number. Among them, a communication from Dr. 
Gadsden and an offer made by the Patho-Biological Laboratory 
of Nebraska, are matters of too much importance to be passed 
over with merely a single notice. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
APPEAL 
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK IN 
BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE BUILD- 
ING FUND. 
The millions upon millions of domestic animals in the United 
States represent an aggregate wealth of upwards of $2,500,000,- 
000, in addition to their being to us sources of food, labor, rai¬ 
ment, pleasure and products for exportation. 
These animals are subject to disease and injury. The older 
nationalities of Europe have for the past century had established, 
under government support, large and thoroughly appointed edu¬ 
cational institutions for the qualifying of men, by medical train¬ 
ing, to care for the domestic animals, when sick or injured; to 
guard against the importation of contagious diseases; and to 
arrest such diseases by intelligent and scientific methods of pro¬ 
cedure when they do occur. More than that, the special medical 
