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upon the worthless sheet without his having put it there, 
upon which the conviction took place, proving the charge as 
above, that he, 44 McClure, was the Veterinary College of 
Philadelphia/’ false, if not malicious. At the time these 
irregularities occurred the college doors had been closed ten 
years, therefore such statements are not only unjust, but 
grossly untrue. The name of A. L. Elwyn, M.D., was upon 
all legal diplomas issued by the college, as was also my 
father’s, but his name did not appear upon the worthless 
sheets, neither was the seal of the college upon them, but 
instead a seal purporting to be of the Merchants’ Veterinary 
College, an institution unknown to the veterinary profession. 
The above facts Prof. Liautard ought to have known, and 
not unjustly stigmatise the graduates of a college labouring 
under difficulties which had been removed previous to his 
coming to the United States. The first effort to establish a 
veterinary college in the City of New York, though backed 
by many and energetic professors, Capt. Polston, and Dr. 
John Busteed, proves this fact. 
44 Philadelphia has an unenviable notoriety in veterinary 
history in connection with the 4 bogus degrees/ the fame of 
which, extending to this side of the Atlantic, has rendered 
us suspicious of qualifications/’ This conclusion appears 
more in the form of gossip or malice than of fact. Had 
the writer connected the 4 bogus ’ reputation with human 
medicine he would have been correct. It was from this 
source, and not the veterinary, that Philadelphia became so 
notorious. The proof is given as follows in the Philadelphia 
Record :— 44 There is a badge of fraud in the very selection of 
the name of the bogus diploma factory recently exposed in 
these columns. It is so closely similar to that of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, known and honoured throughout 
the world, as to be easily confounded with it in the minds of 
the unwary. The title of the fraudulent institution now 
commanding so considerable a degree of public attention 
was probably adopted with a deliberate purpose of deception. 
Like colourable imitation of trade marks and copyrights, it 
is a manifest counterfeit. The University of Pennsylvania 
is located in Philadelphia, and it annually graduates a large 
number of physicians. The 4 Philadelphia University of 
Medicine ’ might easily pass for it at a distance from the 
city, and a degree given by this miserable make-believe 
concern might readily be mistaken for the imprimatur of 
what is recognised as one of the foremost ot the great 
medical schools of the United States. Evidently the main 
object of this swindle, apart from the pecuniary purpose it 
