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through, still it was carried. And that shows that it is amongst physicians that we 
are likely to receive greater assistance and recognition than anywhere else, and cer¬ 
tainly we could not address ourselves 'to a more honorable or important body. 
Our own people, those whose interest we protect, the Agriculturalists, had for some 
reason or other declined our offer. At the suggestion of Dr. Liautard in 1872, after 
the resolutions adopted in 1870, by the American Veterinary Medical Association, 
the N. Y. C. V. S. directed to the Officers of each State and County Medical Society, 
and to the Officers of each State and County Agricultural Associations, circulars 
offering one full and one-half Scholarships to the different societies and associations,— 
and, must I say it, this generous offer of the faculty of the .New York College of Veter¬ 
inary Surgeons was not noticed,—not a single answer, not a single response to the call. 
But then Gentlemen we are brought down to our own later days ; we have seen 
that slowly but surely the interest in Veterinary Medicine has increased, and no doubt 
the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons has done much to advance the profess¬ 
ion in this Country. How unfortunate it was, as I already stated its life was cut short; 
we have seen how after ten year’s hard labor, the faculty were obliged to resign. 
And now we have arrived at 1875, March at the end of the last Session, when our 
graduates are receiving the last diplomas of their dying Almamater, and with this, 
rises another school—the American Veterinary College. 
Encouraged by the success which had rewarded their efforts, and especially satis¬ 
fied of the importance of such an institution, and of the certain success which would 
follow if properly managed, and above all if worked with a professional and not a 
personal interest in view, and well prepared by their ten years previous labor, the 
different members of the faculty of the old school at once made up their minds to con¬ 
tinue the attempt. As soon as they left the N, Y. C. V. S., they induced gentlemen to or¬ 
ganize a Board of Trustees and to apply for a charter for the American Veterinary College. 
• This Charter was obtained through the general law of the State of New York, 
passed in I848, and amended in 1870, which gave the Supreme Court the right to 
grant charters to Medical Institutions, etc., and in April of the same year two months 
after the close of the old school, the American Veterinary College issued their first 
circulars with an increased corps of teachers. Professors Liautard, Large, Robertson, 
Stein, Weisse, Percy and Satterlee filling the different chairs. 
Gentlemen, we have seen those names already and they must remain connected 
with the history of our profession. It would not become me to remind you of what 
little I have done, but the others must certainly find their place amongst the first 
in establishing Veterinary Schools in America. If the N. Y. C. V. S. owed its birth to 
an act of legislature obtained through the exertions of Dr. John Busteed, to the 
faculty it owed its life of ten years. Speaking of the American Veterinary College, 
Fleming says it is the old school rejunie ,—this is very true. 
Opening in a new building, purchased for that purpose by Dr. Liautard, who, after 
fitting it up for Hospital purposes, with lecture and dissecting rooms, offered it for 
the use of the faculty, it possesses all the accommodations which are necessary in 
such an undertaking. 
Dr. Liautard’s collection of over six hundred Anatomical and Pathological speci¬ 
mens is of great value to illustrate the lectures, and the Museum of the College proper, 
which by the way, is formed by donations from different members of the profession all 
over the country, is called to form one of the finest exhibitions on the Continent. A 
library is also to be collected with the assistance of the Alumni of the school. 
