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support of veterinary schools in their respective States. Second. 
—That they ask the Governors of their respective States to re¬ 
commend in their messages to thier Legislatures the importance of 
establishing veterinary colleges, and that appropriations be made 
to support them. Third.—That they recommend the Governor 
and the State Legislature when organizing Boards of Health to 
appoint one or more thoroughly educated veterinary surgeons to 
be associated as commissioners with other medical officers. 
“Resolved , That we recommend the employment of veterinary 
surgeons in the army, and one in the Agricultural Department, 
with rank and pay of other medical officers.” 
Our Veterinary Department has been contemplated for some 
time, and was rendered practicable through the acquisition by the 
university of this piece of land from the city of Philadelphia, 
and the liberality of Mr. J. B. Lippincott and Mr. Joseph E. 
Gillingham, who have furnished the means for these substantial 
buildi: gs and outfit. Unfortunately a veterinary school cannot 
be ordered and completed like a primary school house, and we 
have but the corner stone of what I believe will be a great insti¬ 
tution. 
We open to-day with the veterinary course of the first year 
only; our matriculants, twenty in number, have been required to 
show a sufficient previous education or have passed a preliminary 
examination equivalent to that of the Medical Department. This 
requirement is too little for men who should be qualified to un¬ 
dertake the mathematics needed in a problem of chemical analy¬ 
sis, electricity, or the value of a muscular movement in the physi¬ 
ological study of an animal, or to handle easily the technical 
terms derived from Greek and Latin, which medicine has found 
it proper to employ for nomenclature, but it is sufficient to guar¬ 
antee that the student has enough education to appreciate what 
will be taught him, with great diligence and labor on his own 
part. 
Our students will learn this year, on the same footing as those 
of the medical department, the study of chemistry with its 
practical courses under Professor Wormley; they will follow the 
course of materia medica and pharmacy under Dr. Miller and 
