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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
The Catalogue of the American Veterinary College is 
before us, and is by no means so formidable as that above 
mentioned. Though the lecturer on one important branch of 
veterinary study graduated only in the present year, we 
note in the names of the staff some which are familar to us 
as connected with professional progress. This school was 
incorporated in 1875, is recognised by the Board of Regents 
of the University of New York, in 1878 instituted a matri¬ 
culation test, has winter and summer sessions, and gives 
the degreeD.V.S. The examinational test is written, oral, and 
practical. Prizes are awarded by the Alumni Association, 
by the New York Veterinary Society, by Professor Liautard, 
Dean of the Faculty, and by the Board of Trustees. There 
are, for 1879, 42 students; 32 gentlemen have already 
obtained the degree of D.V.S. of this school. 
Massachusetts in 1835 was visited by C. M. Wood, who 
practised successfully. Dadd followed him in 1849, and 
started a veterinary journal in 1851 ; this lasted only one 
year. It was revived in 1855, when, under the protection 
of a Charter from the State, Dadd associated himself with 
Messrs. C. M. and R. Wood and A. S. Copernan, and estab¬ 
lished the first American Veterinary College. Both college 
and journal lasted only a short time. 
Pennsylvania has an unenviable notoriety in veterinary 
history in connection with the “ bogus degrees,” the fame of 
which, extending to this side of the Atlantic, has rendered us 
suspicious of qualifications, even sometimes more searching 
than those to which we subject our own graduates. In 1818 
James Carver announced himself the author of a book entitled 
The Farrier's Magazine , or Archives of Veterinary Science , 
containing the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the 
horse and other domestic quadrupeds, and compiled from the 
lectures and practice of veterinary colleges of London, France, 
Germany, Russia, and British India, by James Carver, 
Veterinary Surgeon, Master of Equitation,and Corresponding 
Member of the London Veterinary Medical Society and the 
College of India.” The work contains a little over one hun¬ 
dred pages treating upon these matters. For an account of a 
worthy successor of Mr. Carver, devoid, however, of his 
ubiquity, but resembling him very closely in his literary pre¬ 
tensions, my readers may consult the Review for November, 
1877. Here they will learn how “ Professor ” McClure, 
“M.D.V.S.,” who was the “ Veterinary College of Phila¬ 
delphia ” as the officers and professors of the school “ by the 
authority vested in us by the sovereign power of the State of 
