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this a signature not his own , and so experienced the sovereignty 
of his state under the form of a visit from a constable, and re¬ 
sulting in incarceration.'’'’ The impartial reader will fail to rec¬ 
ognize the above statement as true, when it bears upon its face 
the fact that “ incarceration” was not the result of issuing bogus 
diplomas, but from the fact of one of the officers of the college 
having his name upon the worthless sheet without his having put 
it there, upon which the conviction took place, proving the charge 
as above, that he, “ McClure, was the Veterinary College of 
Philadelphia,” false, if not malicious. At the time these irregu¬ 
larities occurred the college doors had been closed ten years, there¬ 
fore such statements are not only unjust, but grossly untrue. The 
name of A. L. Elwyn, M.D., was upon all legal diplomas issued 
by the college, as was also my father’s, but his name did not ap¬ 
pear upon the worthless sheets, neither was the seal of the college 
upon them, but instead a seal purporting to be of the Merchant’s 
Veterinary College, an institution unknown to the veterinary pro¬ 
fession. The above facts Prof. Liautard ought to have known, 
and not unjustly stigmatize the graduates of a college laboring 
under difficulties which had been removed previous to his coming 
to the United States. The first effort to establish a veterinary 
college in the City of New York, though backed by many and en¬ 
ergetic professors, Capt. Rolston, and Dr. John Busteed proves 
this fact. 
‘‘Philadelphia has an uneviable notoriety in veterinary history 
in connection with the ‘ bogus degrees;’ the fame of which, ex¬ 
tending to this side of the Atlantic, has rendered us suspicious of 
qualifications.” This conclusion appears more in the form of 
gossip or malice than of fact. Had the writer connected the 
‘ bogus’ reputation with human medicine he would have been cor¬ 
rect. It was from this source, and not the veterinary, that Phila¬ 
delphia became so notorious. The proof is given as follows in 
the Philadelphia Record :—“There is a badge of fraud in the 
very selection of the name of the bogus diploma factory recently 
exposed in these columns. It is so closely similar to that of the 
University of Pennsylvania, known and honored throughout the 
world, as to be easily confounded with it in the minds of the 
