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Ill the Hospital, patients are admitted for care and treatment 
during their illness, thereby affording the best possible opportu¬ 
nities for the instruction of the students of the College. During 
the past twelve years over 5,500 horses and 600 dogs have been 
inmates of the hospital. 
All this collegiate and hospital work has been quietly carried 
forward in our midst by the trustees and faculty of the American 
Veterinary College, and by it, as justly stated in the New York 
Herald editorial before quoted, “ Hew York, the birthplace of 
veterinary medicine, veterinary societies and veterinary journal¬ 
ism in the United States, has a school which has sent forth hun¬ 
dreds of able practitioners, and made an enviable name for itself 
without any assistance from the public.” 
The work of the American Veterinary College and the success 
of her alumni as professional men, have naturally drawn atten¬ 
tion to the subject of veterinary medicine. The University of 
Pennsylvania and Harvard University have each established a 
Veterinary Department. Of the former the New York Herald 
says: “ The success of the American Veterinary College has 
stimulated educational work of a similar kind in other parts of 
the Union. A veterinary school was started in Philadelphia 
three or four years ago, and it has made rapid progress, because 
the people have been generous towards it. The city of Philadel¬ 
phia gave it twenty lots of ground; the sum of fifty thousand 
dollars was raised, and it is just about receiving one hundred 
thousand dollars from the State.* If we are to keep ahead of 
Pennsylvania in veterinary education, the people will have to put 
their hands in their pockets. The city which gives shelter to 
Maud S., for whom one hundred thousand dollars has been re¬ 
fused, and to thousands of horses of many degrees of value, 
should not hesitate to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars for 
the better equipment of a college which year after year is fitting 
men to guard our flocks and herds from the ravages of disease.” 
The present accommodations of the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege and Hospital are now totally inadequate to meet the de- 
* The Pennsylvania Legislature gave $50,000 at their last session to the 
Veterinary Department of the Pennsylvania University. The appropriation, 
however, was vetoed by the Governor of that State. 
