EDITORIAL. 
101 
We are taken to task in reference to two points—the first is 
the establishment of veterinary colleges in the United States, the 
second in relation to the organization of the United States Veter- 
nary Medical Association; both of which he wishes us to attrib¬ 
ute to his father. 
In our history, we gave credit to the organization of the 
“ Pennsylvania College of Veterinary Surgeons ” as having taken 
place in 1866, and not a word is said by us of the connection of 
Mr. McClure with that institution. It is true, Mr. Jennings tells 
us of the organization of the “ Veterinary College of Philadel- 
gohia” in 1850. We were ignorant of this fact. But the reader 
will, by careful perusal, satisfy himself of the hard smoothing 
work done by that institution, which, chartered in 1850, took 
three years to organize, which organization failed by the resigna¬ 
tion of two of its members; which was, however, reorganized in 
1857 to see a second failure by a second resignation amongst its 
faculty ; and the college remains, as we stated in our paper, with¬ 
out a building, and delivering lectures (if any are given) in the 
rooms of the Agricultural Society. We must, however, acknow¬ 
ledge our error in mentioning the name of the institution. How 
long did the father of the Veterinary College of Philadelphia 
constitute the entire faculty, after the resignation of Mr. Bowler 
in 1859-60, before he went out traveling , we cannot answer. We 
were again going to be unjust, for Mr. Bob. McClure was tiled 
appointed to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Bowler, which connects 
him with the Philadelphia Veterinary College. 
In relation to the true Pennsylvania College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, now dead since 1870, we may have made some errors. 
We would be thankful to our friend Ur. Gadsden, who has been in 
Philadelphia for a number of years, if he would acquaint us witli 
the running of that institution during its existence of four years. 
Can the Veterinary College of Philadelphia, considering the 
manner in which it performed its work and not merely because it 
obtained its charter in 1850, be considered as the first one in the 
United States? 
We say no ! The first truly organized school with faculty, 
building, lecture-rooms, clinical department, hospital, dissecting 
