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MINNESOTA'S AMENDED VETERINARY LAW. 
An Act to amend sections three (3) and eight (8) of 
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE (31) OF THE GENERAE RAWS OF THE 
State of Minnesota for the year 1893, relating to 
THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE, SURGERY AND 
DENTISTRY. 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : 
Section i. That Section three of Chapter thirty-one of the general laws of the State 
of Minnesota for the year eighteen hundred and nineiy-three (1893) be and the same is 
hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
Sec. 3. The Governor of the State shall appoint a board of examiners within thirty 
days after the passage of this act, said board to be known as the State Board of Veterinary 
Medical Examiners. 
This board shall consist of five qualified veterinarians, each of whom shall be graduates 
of a legally authorized veterinary college or university, who shall hold office for two 
years after such appointment or until their successors are appointed. 
Sec. 2. That Section eight of Chapter thirty-one (31) of the general laws of the State of 
Minnesota for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three (1893), be and the same is 
hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
Sec. 8. All persons commencing the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery or 
dentistry in this State after the passage of th's act, shall be graduates of a legally authorized 
veterinary college or university, and shall pass the examination required by said State 
Board of Veterinary Examiners. 
Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
Approved April 23, 1897. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY COIXEGE. 
At the annual commencement of Cornell University, June 
17th, 1897, the following received the degree of Doctor of Vet¬ 
erinary Medicine : Walter Emerson Howe, V.S., Delphi, N. Y. ; 
Herman Reeve Ryder, A^S., Delphi, N. Y. ; Walter Edward 
Weihe, Wilkesbarre, Pa. The Horace K. White prizes to the 
most meritorious students in veterinary science were awarded to 
W. E. Howe and H. R. Ryder, who were adjudged equal in 
merit. 
The graduation thesis presented by the candidates were : 
“ Contagions Pneumonia in the Horse,” by W. E. Weihe, based 
upon cases observed in the hospital ; and “ The Physiological 
Temperature of Some Domestic Animals,” by W. E. Howe and 
H. R. Ryder, a work based on careful research on the different 
genera of domestic animals under varying conditions, and one 
of no little value in its bearing on modern medicine and es¬ 
pecially on toxine testing for glanders -and tuberculosis. 
