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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
The animals that died or were destroyed had post mortem 
examinations made on the cadavers, which, with the dead animals 
that were brought to the college, made the number of autopsies 
count 158. 
Five hundred and sixty-six operations were performed. 
The attendance on the free clinics, which are held twice a 
week under the direction of the medical staff and the professors 
of the college, amounted to 495 animals, amongst which 91 were 
submitted to different operations. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
The following are extracted from a letter to the Veterinarian 
written by Mr. R. Jennings, Jr.,Y.S., of Pittsburgh, Pa., and pub¬ 
lished in the August number of that journal. As the passages 
seem to reflect upon the doings of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association, and as many of the first originators of the 
Association are still living and still members of that body, we have 
thought the extracts would prove interesting and worthy of cor¬ 
rection at the hands of those members. Reference to the minutes 
of the Association will, as Mr. Jennings says, bring the truth to 
the front.— [Ed. A. V. R.] 
“ I now believe I have made this subject clear, if not, I must 
admit my inability to do so. If the statements of American 
veterinary history made by this author were ‘ unjust ’ and ‘ unfair,’ 
where w r as Mr. Jennings, the planner of the United States Veter¬ 
inary Association, at the opening meeting at which the paper 
was read ? 
“ Not knowing at what meeting the paper was produced, I 
cannot answer the question. But I do know that the graduates 
of English and French schools were not in sympathy with Ameri¬ 
can veterinary practitioners, nor have they ever been. As proof 
number one, J. Horsburgh, M.R.C.V.S., visited the United States 
in 1853. He says, ‘ I visited the cities of Philadelphia, New 
