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These students must serve as long in the army as they spend in 
the college. 
The other schools are on general plan very much as Berlin, 
some teach special branches to the detriment of others. The 
Hanover school is the newest equipped. The Dresden school is 
hampered for room. The Munich school has been recently re¬ 
equipped. At Stuttgart is to be found the well known Hoffman 
table for operating on horses, on which 1200 horses have been 
operated upon in two years, without an accident. 
The Budapest (Hungary) school is comparatively new, having 
been built about 15 years ago. This school is supported by the 
government. It must be admitted that schools supported by 
governments are better equipped than those which are not, this 
accounts in a large measure for our inferior schools here in the 
U. S. 
The London school founded by Bell in 1792 stands 011 leased 
ground and supported by friends of the school and students. 
The examinations are conducted by a committee appointed by 
the Royal Veterinary Society and graduates who pass this 
examination are admitted to this Society. Before concluding 
this valuable discourse Dr. Pearson drew some valuable and in¬ 
teresting comparisons with our schools and pointed out their 
advantages and disadvantages but thought they were gradually 
developing toward continental systems. 
Dr. M. P. Ravenel, bacteriologist for the Pennsylvania Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, having been abroad as a representative 
from this Board, at the “Tuberculosis Congress at London” was 
the next speaker for the evening. Dr. Ravenel was one of the 
first men to take issue with Prof. Koch’s statement as to the 
communicability of tuberculosis from cattle to men. He says 
in part that Koch’s statement was entirely too sweeping and too 
radical; he overlooked the statistics of other pathologists; he 
was irrational and unreasonable; for the following reasons: First, 
that no animal is absolutely immune to tuberculosis. Second, 
several cases definitely known, and many cases not clearly proven 
have been placed on record in which the infection was traced to 
the bovine species. Third, it has been definitely proved that 
any infections or contagious disease which attacks three species 
of animals, is also transmissible to man. Dr. Ravenel then ex¬ 
plained that all the findings and experimental work brought for¬ 
ward by the Tuberculosis Congress were nothing new, for under 
the plans which Dr. Leonard Pearson formulated for exper¬ 
imental investigation for the S. L. S. S. B. of Pennsylvania 
