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thing pertaining to the establishment of Veterinary Medicine, was not discouraged 
however by this first attempt. Having found much' difficulty in bringing the Board 
of Trustees together, application was made for an amendment, which was granted 
to the same Board in 1862. Everything looked bright once more, Dr. Busteed was 
very enthusiastic, and there was nothing lacking but a building to have a school 
started, which however was soon obtained at 205 Lexington Avenue, where Dr. 
Liautard had been engaged in private p ract ice for years. In 1864 the faculty was 
organized as follows: 
Dr. Busteed, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
Dr. Liautard, Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Surgery. 
Dr. Large, do. Physiology. 
Mr. Copeman, do. Theory and Practice. 
These lectureships were given only temporarily until, if found capable, Professor¬ 
ships were to be granted afterwards. 
Now, Gentlemen, the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons was fully organized. 
Circulars were issued. The first session was held in 1864 and 63; the first year no less 
than seven students were attending the lectures, when the sudden and permanent 
retirement of one of the gentlemen nearly caused a difficulty in the carrying on of the 
Institution. In 1S66 Dr. Weisse was appointed as Lecturer on Chemistry and Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics in place of Dr. Busteed, who takes the lectures on Histology. 
In 1S6S Dr. L. Mason is added to the faculty as Professor of Physiology in place of Dr- 
Large, who had been filling the department of Practice. The first session 1869 and 70, 
saw another change, another re-organization of the faculty, Dr. Busteed retired from 
active work altogether, and the corps of Professors re-arranged, remaining as follows 
until 1875: 
Dr. A. Liautard, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. 
Dr. A. Large, 
Dr. F. D. Weisse, 
Dr. A. W. Stein, 
Dr. S. R. Percy, 
Dr. J. L. Robertson, do. 
do. Practice, 
do. Surgical Pathology, 
do. Physiology and Histology, 
do. Chemistry, Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
Cattle Pathology and Obstetrics. 
The success attending the Institution was great. The class which had first been 
very small,—in 1868 there was but one student for the whole session,—soon increased 
until 1873, when 18 students had matriculated: but unfortunately the N. V. C. V. S_ 
was doomed to the same fate as its predecessor in Boston. About that time difficulties 
arose in the Board of Trustees giving rise to legal controversy, and the gentleman who 
had been up to this time the father of the institution by his oversights brought on by 
sickness and ill judgment, became the cause of its death ; through his conduct the 
faculty in consequence of the trouble in the Board of Trustees, resigned in a body. 
Dr. Liautard who had entire control of the school, who had built his clinical depart¬ 
ment successfully as superintendent, and after as Chief Veterinary Surgeon, resigned also, 
and from that moment I may say the N. Y. C. V. S. had come to an end. The lectures 
were no more delivered, the hospital soon had to close its doors, the property was sold 
to satisfy indebtedness, all that after the session of 1874-75, after an existence of ten 
vears. 
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I may be allowed here to correct some statements which found their way into the 
Newspapers, in an obituary article of Dr. Busteed and C. C. Grice, where the former 
was called the founder and sustainer with his own means of the school, and the second 
