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NEW VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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assemblage of the profession from all parts of the city and 
neighboring towns, showing the great interest felt in this latest 
offspring of a world-renowned institution of education, science 
and literature. All present were well pleased with the facilities 
wl ich the school afforded for the study of this branch of science, 
and predicted a great success for its future. There is a class of 
24 attending lectures in this department. This is, I believe, the 
largest with which any school began its first year, and this num¬ 
ber promises to increase. Beside these, there are several taking 
special courses. 
For this year only the first or junior course of studies will be 
required. This is the same as is required in the Medical Depart¬ 
ment, and when the students of the Veterinary Department will 
be instructed, with the exception of Anatomy, Forging and Dis¬ 
sections, with some little change in the laboratory work, as is 
shown by the rosters of the two departments. 
With the exception of Prof. Huidekoper, the faculty of this 
department are composed of professors from the Medical De¬ 
partment, all of whom have a world-wide reputation in their 
specialties. The chairs at present filled are, Internal Pathology, 
and pro tempore , Veterinary Anatomy, by Prof. Rush Shippen 
Huidekoper; General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, by Prof. 
James Tyson; Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, by 
Prof. Horatio C. Wood; Chemistry and Toxicology, by Prof. 
Theodore G. Wormley; Physiology, by Prof. Harrison Allen; 
Botany, by Prof. Joseph T. Rothrock ; Comparative Anatomy 
and Zoology, by Prof. Andrew J. Parker; Comparative Physi¬ 
ology, by Prof. Robert Mead Smith. „ 
Among the Demonstrators, that class of instructors who form 
such an important adjunct of the faculty of all schools, and 
whose services it is hard to overestimate, I notice the name of 
Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, as Demonstrator of Anatomy, an alumnus 
of the American Veterinary College. This may be taken as ad¬ 
ditional evidence, and embodied in the history of our alumni, 
that many of the graduates of our alma mater are rapidly ad¬ 
vancing to fill the higher positions of our calling, the duties of 
which they are well fitted to perform, by reason of the excep- 
