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CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
MATRICUI.Aa'lON IN ME VETERINARY SCHOOES OE NEW YORK. 
^Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :—As your May issue quoted the article from the 
Turf, Field and Farm on ‘‘Veterinary Schools in the State,’’ I 
Ibeg" the courtesy of your pages to correct some inadvertencies 
into which the writer of that article had fallen, and which were 
set right in the same paper in the number for April 29^ 189^’ 
As the matter is now, by your May issue, placed before the vet¬ 
erinary profession it is important that it should not be left in a 
form which is likely to prove misleading. 
In carrying out the provisions of the law, which demanded 
a full high school course, representing 48 counts, the Regents 
did not demand the subjects named as obligatory in the news¬ 
paper article. Excepting the 8 counts in English which are de¬ 
manded of all candidates, they allowed the fullest liberty in 
choosing from the entire range of high school studies. As in¬ 
dicated in the Regents’ examinations hand-book, it seems as if 
the candidate might take 38 counts in English alone, and the 
remaining 16 counts might be taken in arithmetic, geography, 
drawing and other simple subjects without a single foreign 
tono-ue, or hard scientific study. The rule acted on by the 
Regents in the past year has been to accept pass cards for any 
48 academic counts. • . 
It is perfectly true that hitherto certain veterinary schools 
in America have admitted students with practically no prelimi¬ 
nary examination. But the men who were unable to^ have 
taken such preliminary examination are handicapped for life un¬ 
less they can overcome their deficiency by hard work in the 
future. 1 • .-r 
When a veterinarian has been wanted to undertake scientinc 
work, as in agricultural schools and experiment stations, the 
choice has almost invariably fallen on one who has a bachelor’s 
degree, or at least what the New York law demands for matri¬ 
culation in a veterinary college. The following culled from 
the official list serves to illustrate this : . 
Illinois, D. McIntosh, V. S.; Michigan, G. A. Waterman, 
V. S.; North Dakota, W. C. Eangdon, D. V. S. (3) In which 
the education was not more apparently than the veterinary col¬ 
lege education. 
South Carolina, W. E. A. Wyman, D. V. S., post gradual 
course ; Massachusetts, J. B. Paige, D. V. S.,^ post-graduate m 
