8 VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
Professor Law tells us that in nine years but two candidates 
have graduated at Cornell, but we are inclined to think 
even F.B.C.V.S. might envy these gentlemen their degree of 
B.V.S. or D.Y.M. The Illinois Industrial University has 
its veterinary hall, in which Professor F. W. Prentice, M.D., 
M.R.C.V.S., delivers his lectures on veterinary science. The 
university confers no degree. This department has an 
endowment of 3000 dollars. The Washington and Lea 
University in Virginia, and the Agricultural Colleges of 
Ohio,Pennsylvania, Dartmouth (New Hampshire), Vermont, 
and formerly the Bussy Institute of Boston, have veterinary 
chairs, but grant no diploma. The Iowa Agricultural 
College is about to reorganise its veterinary department, 
and to establish a veterinary college in connection with its 
curriculum of agricultural studies with six or seven qualified 
professors. This movement is supported by the legislature of 
the State. The Agricultural School of Amherst endeavoured 
to organise a system resembling that of Cornell, but less 
rigid. J. Stickney was appointed first professor in 1869, 
and in 1873 Dr. Noah Cressy was appointed to the same 
post. The attendance is very small. Such being the native 
sources of veterinary qualified practitioners and the native 
means of veterinary instruction, we must next consider the 
foreign elements of the profession in the U.S. of America. 
These are derived from Canada and from the countries of 
Europe, notably Great Britain, Germany, and France, in 
order according with their importance as source of supply. 
There are two veterinary schools in Canada, one at Mon¬ 
treal, the other at Toronto. The latter takes precedence as 
regards age, the former as regards progressive tendencies 
and the standard of education. The Montreal Veterinary 
College is under Principal McEachran, F.R.C.V.S. It 
is connected with the McGill University of Montreal, and 
thus the students have the privilege of attending courses 
of lectures delivered by the professors of that school of 
learning. This must give them a good acquaintance with the 
accessory sciences, and recalls to our minds that early stage 
in the history of our London College, when the students 
attended courses of chemistry, physiology, &c., at the various 
metropolitan medical schools. The period of study com¬ 
prises three sessions of six months each, after which each 
student is required to pass an examination before a hoard 
of veterinary surgeons and professors of the McGill Uni¬ 
versity, the members of the board being appointed by the 
Council of Agriculture. In one respect there is an advance 
on the English examinational system, for the candidates are 
