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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
patrons of the school, not, however, with a view of making 
veterinary surgeons. These lectures were upon general 
subjects, such as would be interesting to horse and cattle 
owners. The number of graduates of the Philadelphia 
College, all told, were twenty-four, few of whom used their 
pen, except to report some peculiar case of disease or opera¬ 
tion occurring in their practice, for which the local press 
was usually selected. 
Regarding the Agricultural Society, my subject was not 
clearly stated, as I since discovered. The expenses of 
maintaining the building at Sixth and Master Streets, had 
been borne for two years by the Faculty, to lessen which the 
appeal to the Society was made, the result of which has 
already been stated. The Infirmary, however, was retained, 
the balance of the building vacated. The Museum, being 
private property, was removed to a private room, with the 
exception of the skeleton of Ned. Forrest, the king of the 
turf in his day, was articulated and presented to the College 
by his owner, Gen. Geo. Cadwallader, one of the corporators 
of the College, which, by his request, was deposited in the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, until such time as the College 
could provide a suitable place for it. The lectures, from 
this time to the closing of the institution, were delivered in 
the rooms of the Agricultural Society, with the exception 
of those on anatomy, which were delivered in the dissecting- 
room, built several years previous for the American Veteri¬ 
nary Association, and those of chemistry, which through 
the kindness of the Faculty of the Pennsylvania Medical 
College (one of the honoured institutions of Philadelphia), 
gave free admission to these lectures to the students of the 
Veterinary School. 
The persistent efforts of the Faculty in consequence of 
these difficulties has been misrepresented. 
Though the courses of instruction were as perfect as the 
circumstances under which they laboured could make them, 
these “irregularities,” as some of our good friends chose to 
call them, were approved by the Board of Directors, with 
such men connected as Prof. James Bryan, of the then 
Philadelphia Medical College, and A. L. Elwyn, M.D., the 
honoured President of the Philadelphia Society for the Pre¬ 
vention of Cruelty to Animals. Few men would have 
laboured with the same zeal as Drs. Bowler and Jennings 
did, without pecuniary reward, besides bearing the taunts 
of the graduates of Europe, who refused to lend a helping 
hand in the hour of need. To the founders, St. Bell, Prof. 
Coleman, and other early workers in England, due credit 
