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at the corner of Sixth Street and Columbia Avenue, which 
exhausted the treasury, compelling a direct tax upon each 
individual member. Two courses of lectures were delivered 
in this building, when to save expense the doors were closed 
in 1870, since which time quarterly meetings have been 
held in Diligent Hall. No effort as yet has been made to 
reorganise the college. In connection with this college the 
writer says : “ In 1866 the Pennsylvania College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons was granted a charter. It announced six 
officers, among them Isaiah Michener, one of the leading 
men of his state. It had no buildings, gave few, if any, 
lectures ; we may, therefore, conclude all Pennsylvania vete¬ 
rinary diplomas as worthless.” To refute such slanderous 
statements I have only to say that the veterinary colleges of 
Philadelphia held their annual commencements in public; 
the exercises, together with the names of the graduating 
classes, were regularly reported in all the daily papers in 
Philadelphia, as are those of other legitimate medical 
colleges. If such evidence is not sufficient to wipe out the 
infamous charges made by the enemies of the Philadelphia 
veterinary schools, I can furnish recorded evidence from 
other sources, which are too voluminous to offer at this 
time. No charge was ever made in the City of Philadelphia 
against either of these institutions, the charges being 
wholly of an individual character against McClure. From 
these facts, which we assert to be true in every particular, 
the impartial reader will readily acknowledge the injustice 
done these schools, but more particularly to their gradu¬ 
ates. The first or January number of the American Vete¬ 
rinary Review I did not see, or I would have answered the 
calumny at once. 
In the list of American veterinary works mentioned by 
the editor of the American Veterinary Revieiv I notice 
“ works by Jennings and McClure.” Now, I do not wish 
to charge Prof. Liautard with maliciously associating these 
names, but rather attribute it to want of information upon 
the subject. My father’s works, ‘ The Horse and his Dis¬ 
eases,’ published in 1860, ‘ Cattle and their Diseases,’ in 
1862, f Sheep, Swine, and Poultry/ in 1863, and e Horse 
Training made Easy/ in 1865, have no other name asso¬ 
ciated with them, nor is my father’s name associated in any 
manner with any of McClure’s publications. The works 
themselves prove the assertion. A review of my father’s 
first work, by Prof. John Gamgee, will be found in vol. iii of 
the Edinburgh Veterinary Review , 1861, in which he says: 
“ The above work favorably contrasts with other American 
