VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
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lege, for difficulties which occurred about 1873 led to secession 
of the whole teaching staff, who, under Professor Liautard, 
founded the American Veterinary College. The original in¬ 
stitution closed its doors, again flickered into life, and an 
expiring spark of it recently appeared when a memorial was 
signed by some of its graduates endeavouring to obstruct 
the sanitary efforts adopted for repression and eradication of 
pleuro-pneumonia zymotica. After this let us hope it will 
no more be seen nor heard. A curious feature of its exist¬ 
ence was presented in 1868, when the faculty lectured to a 
class of one student. 
We have before us the Annual Catalogue and Announce¬ 
ment of the Columbia Veterinary College and School of 
Comparative Medicine, New York, on the back of which is 
a 'woodcut of the said college,, which we are assured on 
credible authority is not accurate in all particulars. It has 
one room with six windows, indicated as the “ Canines 
Hospital,” and an equally large pathological laboratory. 
We find on opening this catalogue a request if we are not 
interested in veterinary science to hand it on to some one 
who is. We find among the councillors the name of Chas. 
P. Lyman, veterinary surgeon; this is C. P. Lyman V.S.E., 
who in 1877 was appointed veterinary lecturer to the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College. He writes to the Revieio to 
say he has not sanctioned the insertion of his name, and 
does not like the company. The staff includes seventeen 
officers. Specialism is carried to its highest extent, there 
being a professor of veterinary ophthalmology, a lecturer on 
animal hygiene, a teacher of jurisprudence of veterinary 
medicine, a lecturer on ornithology and diseases of domestic 
fowls. The demonstrator of anatomy graduated in 1879. 
The list of prizes occupies a prominent position in the cata¬ 
logue. Mr. J. A. Going, <f M.R.C.V.S.E.,” gives a gold medal 
for general proficiency. This individual, who is not a mem¬ 
ber of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, with some 
of the Columbia professors, sent in an official statement that 
pleuro-pneumonia did not exist in Blissville, where it has 
been proved to have been very rife at the time. Eleven 
freshmen entered for 1879. We cannot conscientiously con¬ 
gratulate these gentlemen on their choice, the Columbia 
Catalogue is quite sufficient for us. We believe this insti¬ 
tution is in some way a relic of the New York College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, and, therefore, has a legal existence 
and a right to confer its degree D.V.S., Doctor of Veterinary 
Surgery. We note the name of Noah Cresy, Ph.D., among 
the councillors; it is well known in the profession. 
