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subjected to a written as well as an oral test. A peculiar 
feature of this school is necessitated by the fact that while 
the population of Montreal City is English, the inhabitants 
of the surrounding country are French-speaking descendants 
of the primitive settlers in the colony. So two courses of 
lectures and two examinations are conducted. All students 
before admission are subjected to a matriculation test, not 
of a very searching character, but sufficient to ensure ortho¬ 
graphy. This school is now in its thirteenth year of existence, 
and is a centre of interest to us at present on account of Pro¬ 
fessor McEachran’s application for affiliation with the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. We are in hopes this 
will not be allowed to lapse, but that the powers of our 
Royal College may he so extended as to enable her to 
embrace colonial as well as British schools. With graduates 
in Australia, South Africa, India, and Canada, the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons should be the grand centre 
of professional unity, not of Great Britain only, but of the 
British Empire! All sincere professional workers will 
forward Professor McEachran’s application. In 1875 the 
Council of Agriculture of Quebec voted 1800 dollars annually 
to Professor McEachran for ten years to promote improve¬ 
ment of the school. This gentlemen is Chief Inspecting 
Officer at Quebec. 
Ontario Veterinary College was originated in 1861, and 
the first professional studies commenced in 1862. A 
diploma is given by the Board of Agriculture to such stu¬ 
dents as have attended two sessions at least at the school. 
It is also understood that the student must pass such vaca¬ 
tions as occur with a veterinary practitioner. The matri¬ 
culation is but nominal. The students are much more 
numerous than at Montreal. Professor Smith is principal. 
The competition between the two Canadian schools is very 
keen, and we give preference to one of them solely because 
we advocate strongly those measures which it adopts, even 
at the expense of placing itself at a disadvantage with its 
competitor in such an essential matter as student supply. 
This school has indirectly received a grant from Govern¬ 
ment of 2000 dollars to the Association of Agriculture and 
Arts Association for formation of a veterinary museum and 
library. The Governor of the Province attends at its 
opening meetings, and none but legally educated veterina¬ 
rians may practise in this province. We have read also of 
a Halifax Veterinary Institute , but are not aware of its 
working. Professor Grange delivers a course of veterinary 
lectures annually at the Guelph Agricultural College, 
