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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
assist in this worthy enterprise. Robt. McClure was then 
appointed to fill the vacancy. In 1860 the following letter 
was received from the Veterinary College of Alfort, Prance, 
addressed to my father, which I have had translated: 
Imperial Veterinary School Alfort, March Ith, 1860. 
of Alfort. 
Dear Sir and Brother, —My colleagues, the Professors 
of the School of Alfort, and I are very thankful to you for 
the honour that you are well pleased to do us in proposing 
us to be members of the Veterinary College of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Therefore it is with pleasure that I send you, as you 
wish it, my name, giving the names also of the five pro¬ 
fessors, my colleagues, who are sending to you and to 
your honorable brothers their best respects and most sin¬ 
cere thanks. 
Please accept, dear sir and brother, the expression of my 
own gratitude and of my most distinguished feelings. 
(Signed) Eng. Renault, 
Director of the School of Alfort . 
Messrs. Renault, Eng. Thos. Eli . Director. 
Delafond, Henry Mam. On. . Professor. 
Bouley, Henri Marie . . „ 
Magne, Jean Henry . . „ 
Goubaux, Arm. Chas. . . ,, 
Sannier, Jos. ... „ 
The college enjoyed the privileges extended by the Phila¬ 
delphia Agricultural Society until 1866, when it suspended 
further operations, retiring from active service without a 
stain upon its character, the graduates of which hold legal 
diplomas, which are protected by law, as are those legally 
issued by other medical institutions. My father was the 
principal of the college from its commencement to the end, 
in which no irregularities were known, and to say : “ Prof. 
McClure , M.D., V.S., who was the Veterinary College of 
Philadelphia , as the Officers and Prof, of the School by the 
authority vested in us by the sovereign power of the State 
of Pennsylvania confer the degree of veterinary medicine and 
surgery.” Unfortunately he appended to the diploma an¬ 
nouncing this a signature not his own, and so experienced the 
sovereignty of his state under the form of a visit from a 
constable , and resulting in incarceration.” The impartial 
reader will fail to recognise the above statement as true, 
when it bears upon its face the fact that “ incarceration ” 
was not the result of issuing bogus diplomas, but from the 
fact of one of the officers of the college having his name 
