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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
Letter from R. Jennings, Jun., V.S. 
Gentlemen, —In the June number of your very valuable 
Journal, I read with much interest the reply of J. H. Steel 
to my paper in the May number. He is evidently happy in 
the assertion that 44 I am able to treat with contempt Mr. 
Jenning’s observation, that my paper contains calumnies,” 
44 infamous charges,” and 44 slanderous statements.” 
I duly appreciate his happy feelings, and would advise 
that he keep cool, as the weather is too hot to get excited. 
If he will read my remarks carefully, I think he will see 
that they were not intended to reflect upon him in any 
manner whatever, hut upon those who furnished him the 
information, which is untrue in almost every particular. 
I feel perfectly assured that in the end we will come to a 
fair square understanding, and neither be ashamed of his 
record. 
Some of our ambitious American Vets, may bluster over the 
matter, but they cannot suppress the truths I have asserted. 
You say, 44 What I marvel at is that we have no more evidence 
of these efforts than those enumerated by your correspondent.” 
That is no fault of mine. The benefits of a veterinary 
journal in the United States we did not then enjoy, but the 
doings of the Veterinary College was regularly noticed in 
the daily and weekly papers of Philadelphia from its com- 
mencement to its end. The files of the New York Spirit 
of the Times, Porter's Spirit of the Times , and Wilke's 
Spirit of the Times , will show many recorded facts which 
appear in my communication. 
In 1855 the American Veterinary Journal was published 
in the City of Boston. My father was a regular contributor 
to its columns, to which reference is made by C. M. Wood. 
Its life was short, only three short years. Its most bitter 
opponents was the New York and Massachusetts veterinary 
surgeons, as letters in my possession will prove. 
Every effort to advance Veterinary science in this country 
previous to I860 was met at every turn with determined 
opposition by those who should have given it a helping 
hand. The regular courses of lectures were delivered daily 
bv the Faculty, from the first Monday in November, con¬ 
tinuing sixteen weeks. The free course, delivered once a 
week, was a special course for the benefit of friends and 
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