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and two of the foremost pioneers in medicine and surgery urged 
its importance and advocated its establishment. I refer to the 
honored names of Professors Gross and Hlwyn, who joined with 
Professors McClure and Jennings, of our own branch of medi¬ 
cine. At that time our University was on Ninth Street, and the 
little room it had made it next to impossible to establish this 
department. The Philadelphia college, with but few students 
each year, not enough to support it, without State or private 
assistance, was compelled to close during the session of 1866-67. 
The University moving to West Philadelphia a few years 
later, still appreciating the importance of this branch of scien¬ 
tific study, kept fully alive to its necessity and established this 
department in 1883, with our esteemed colleague. Prof. R. S. 
Huidekoper as Dean, with Drs. Zuill, Hoskins and Glass as in¬ 
structors, and its work of recent years in sending forth well- 
equipped and efficient veterinarians is known to you all. 
In association work our State has an enviable reputation. It 
had a number of its practitioners among the roll of organizers 
of the United States Veterinary Medical Association formed in 
1863. The aim then of contributing to the diffusion of true 
science and particularly the knowledge of veterinary medicine 
and surgery, is still its motto and field of work, and to-day, with 
its membership of over four hundred, are to be found working 
along, shoulder to shoulder, many of the earnest workers in 
veterinary science of the Keystone State. 
The first Pennsylvania association was organized in 1865, 
and it continued in more or less active existence until 1883, 
when its most active members joined with others in the forma¬ 
tion of this association, that chose for its first President our still 
active and worthy member. Dr. Jas. W. Sallade. With many 
graduates of the American, New York, and Canada colleges and 
a large number of excellent practitioners, this organization has 
marched on for almost a score of vears, more earnest and faith- 
fill to all its duties with each added year of its existence, until 
it has a well-earned reputation, second to none, for good work. 
The Keystone Veterinary Medical Association of this city 
