VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
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ject of Veterinary Education devolved. At a meeting of the 
Comita Minoria held in New York, Prof. Lyman and myself 
being present, we presented a plan to treat the subject, which 
would give to each one of the members a special period to 
consider, which we propose to name : Veterinary Education, 
as it was ;—as it is ;—and as it should be, at least in our esti¬ 
mation. Prof. Stalker, notified of his appointment and of the 
part he was to write upon, was unable to do justice to the 
subject and declined to serve. On his notifying the President, 
Prof. N. B. Niles, of Ames, Iowa, was named in his place, 
and then I, as chairman, began to urge my co-members in 
the writing of their parts. There was some misunderstanding, 
however, as to which parts each of those gentlemen would 
take, but this was soon arranged, l believe, satisfactorily, and 
everything went smoothly until a short while ago,when one of 
the gentlemen, on account of ill health, gave up his part. 
This left your committee with two active members, and it is 
the result of their labors I am about to present. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION AS IT WAS! 
The history of Veterinary Education in America can be 
briefly written, For many years after the settlement of the 
country there were no veterinarians or veterinary colleges. 
It was not until the value of domestic animals reached an 
enormous sum, and the success of the veterinary colleges in 
Europe had been noted, that the great need of veterinarians 
began to be felt. In 1806, Dr. Benjamin Rush, who had 
traveled in Europe, and noted the success of the schools there, 
wrote a letter to the Agriculture Society of Philadelphia, 
regarding the necessity of establishing a veterinary depart¬ 
ment in connection with the University of Pennsylvania. 
His letter was discussed, but no steps were taken to estab¬ 
lish the department. In 1851, Mr. G. H. Dadd started a 
veterinary journal in Boston; this continued only about one 
year, but was eventually revived under another name. Soon 
after this, Mr. Dadd and some of his associates started the 
first veterinary college in the country, which, like the journal, 
was short-lived. In 1857, a veterinary college was organized 
