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subserves to those who run it, is to supply credentials to 
intending quacks, by which these villainous cheats may be 
heloed to impose upon the public. The wickedness of such 
a fraud it is not needful to enlarge upon. The injury done 
to properly instructed and reputable practitioners of the 
healing art and the disgrace brought upon the fair fame of 
this city by its existence here are sufficiently bad results ; 
but worse than these is the sending forth to work havoc 
upon the community at large of licensed murderers, whose 
pills and powders are potent only to kill such patients as 
may fall into their hands. A sad feature of this discredit¬ 
able business is the connection with it of several ministers 
of the Gospel. Some of these are perhaps amenable rather 
to the charge of thoughtlessness and indiscretion than of 
deliberate and conscious criminality. The facility with 
which names of the highest respectability are obtained as 
‘trustees/ ‘visitors/ &c., of unworthy institutions and 
enterprises of questionable character has become a great 
abuse. It would be a point gained if the easy-going gentle¬ 
men who lend their credit to these improper uses could be 
made to realise their responsibility, and an occasional recoil 
upon them of their good-natured folly is not altogether to 
be regretted. The ecclesiastical authority to which the 
clergymen alluded to are answerable has already taken steps 
towards an investigation of their connection with the counter¬ 
feit ‘ degree 5 mill. There is no reason to suspect that there 
will be any whitewashing in the case. Such of the persons 
implicated as are found to have a guilty knowledge of the 
fraud will, no doubt, be duly punished.” Is the above evi¬ 
dence sufficient to prove the error made in placing the “ bogus 
diploma ” business at the closed doors of the veterinary 
schools of Philadelphia? 
The Pennsylvania College of Veterinary Surgeons, char¬ 
tered in 1866 to take the place of the old school, was in 
the interest of and under the exclusive control of veterinary 
surgeons. The name of McClure does not appear among 
the corporators, neither will it be found associated with the 
faculty of the college, as you will see by the announcement 
and a copy of the charter, which I send you. These facts 
should prove his unpopularity among the veterinary profes¬ 
sion in the City of Philadelphia. This institution fitted up 
a hall at No. 256, North Fifth Street, where two winter 
courses of lectures were delivered by the faculty. The 
finances of the college being in a healthy condition, it was 
decided to fit up a building better adapted to the purposes 
of a veterinary college. A building was rented and fitted up 
