472 VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
question shows very clearly the importance of writers for the 
public press—and especially such a reliable journal as the 
Vetermarian —obtaining full and correct information before 
dealing with a subject, or expressing an opinion thereupon. 
For, in this case, an injustice has been done, although quite 
unintentionally on the part both of the writer and the editor 
of the journal. 
In writing of the Quebec and Ontario veterinary colleges, 
Mr. Steel expresses a preference for the former institution, 
his information being derived, evidently, from the head of 
the Montreal school. The unfairness and gross prejudice 
which marked Professor McEachran’s articles in the Review 
excited attention at the time, and he was publicly corrected, 
but Mr. Steel has entirely overlooked that fact. 
We will now briefly examine the grounds taken by Mr. 
Steel in preferring the Quebec over the Ontario College ; 
eaving it to the unprejudiced public of our profession to 
say whether any such “ preference ” is warranted, as ex¬ 
pressed in the article under consideration. 
First, in regard to matriculation. The Montreal College 
claims a higher standard in this. If the truth be told in 
regard to it, the test is little more than “ nominal * J at either 
place. That it is so in Ontario is not denied, that it is so in 
Montreal we have the assurance of those who know. This 
being the case, we submit that the institution which pursues 
the straightforward course is the more worthy of public con¬ 
fidence—even though its printed announcement be not so 
flashy, and does not read so well to parties at a distance— 
who have no other means of judging. 
The next point, and one on which the advocates of the 
Quebec College lay much stress, is that the students may 
attend the lectures given in McGill’s University on chemis¬ 
try, physiology, &c. By implication, and for all that appears 
in the article under consideration, the students at Toronto 
have no such privilege. Only deficient or one-sided infor¬ 
mation could have caused Mr. Steel to make so misleading: 
a statement. As a matter of fact the students of the Ontario 
Veterinary College attended the lectures on chemistry 
delivered by the foremost exponent of the science in the 
dominion, Professor Croft, of University College. Recently 
the Ontario Government, recognising the national importance 
of the college, has made arrangements whereby another 
Professor of University College, Professor Ellis, delivers a 
course special to veterinary students. In no other institu¬ 
tion, then, can the students have better facilities for the study 
of chemistry than at Toronto. 
