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ical school in the State of New York to require a matriculation 
examination. It has issued diplomas to 133 of its students, many 
of whon^ are in Pennsylvania. In 1862 a school was established 
in Toronto which, like the New York school, demands but two 
years’ study. The Montreal school, founded in 1866, and directed 
by Mr. MaeEachran, requires three winters. .Recently a new 
school lias been established in Chicago, and one in Minneapolis. 
These schools are dependent on scholars’ fees for support, and 
with the precedents of the medical schools of the country, find 
that two winters are all that can, with pecuniary profit, be de¬ 
manded for forcing into the heads of young men, often with but 
little previofis education, the elements of medicine with its vast 
amount of practical details, and the long row of diseases with 
their variations in half a dozen widely differing species of animals 
—less time than it takes for a shoemaker’s apprentice to learn to 
cobble shoes, a clerk to become a book-keeper, or a farrier’s boy 
to be trusted to put ordinary shoes on a horse. Harvard Uni¬ 
versity established a veterinary department last year and has a 
hospital of some size. It requires three years’ study and gives a 
thorough course of instruction. The school is in charge of Pro¬ 
fessor Lyman. The American Veterinary Review published 
in New York since 1877, has continued a journal of scientific 
merit. The United States Veterinary Medical Association, 
formed in 1863, is composed of the leading veterinary surgeons 
throughout the country and has held semiannual meetings at 
New York and Boston until the present autumn, when the meet¬ 
ing was held in Cincinnati. In 1870 the late Dr. S. D. Gross, 
with the keen appreciation and ready heart for the demands of 
medical education, framed and presented the following resolu¬ 
tions to the American Medical Association, but his noble attempt 
to advance our profession failed—was lost by a large majority. 
“ Whereas , We regard the cultivation of veterinary science of 
the most vital importance, not only to the advancement of hu¬ 
man medicine, but also for reasons of political economy and agri¬ 
cultural interest, 
“ Resolved , First.—That we recommend the State and County 
Medical Societies to use their influence in the establishment and 
