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D. McEACHRAN. 
practical advantages are equal to those to be found in a large city. 
Professor Law’s educational work is not confined to his professional 
duties; as an author and editor he has done much to forward the 
profession in his adopted country. 
At Illinois Industrial University, Champaign, we find the chair of 
veterinary medicine ably filled by Prof. W. F. Prentice, M. R. C. V. S., 
who has raised his department to one of importance and whose students 
are well grounded in the science. I am not aware that any degree is 
granted by the University in Veterinary Medicine. 
Lectures on Veterinary Medicine are given in most of the Agri- 
cultuial Colleges, especially at Amherst, Virginia, Ohio, Mhryland, 
Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, N. H., Vermont and Iowa. So far as I can 
learn, none of these chairs are filled by qualified members of the pro¬ 
fession, unless the gentleman who fills that position in the last named 
Agricultural College can claim to be, he having attended for a short 
time, lectures at New York, during the winter of 1875 and ’76, on Anat- 
omy, Practice and Surgery only , and who in his own words, “wanting 
to take advantage of his vacation from the middle of December ’till 
the middle of March next, in attending some Veterinary College that 
affords good facilities”—being refused a short cut into the profession 
at the Montreal College, gained easy access at Toronto, and his name 
flourishes among the recent graduates of that school. As the middle of 
December would be the 15th supposing he entered then, he would have 
one week before the Christmas Holidays. The session reopening about 
the middle of January, he would have nearly ten weeks more to the end 
of March, nearly eleven weeks altogether, in which to reach the high 
standard of perfection claimed by that institution, in Chemistry, 
Materia Medica, Physiology, Horse Pathology, Cattle Pathology, 
Entozoa, Principles of Shoeing, Breeding of Domestic Animals 
Dissecting, Extensive Practice, &o. His success as a student, either 
must be credited to unprecedented ability on his part or else to a 
lamentable disregard for the interests of the profession on the part of 
the Ontario school. The latter I fear is the most likely, and it is much 
to be regretted, especially in the case of a person occupying the posi¬ 
tion of a teacher of science. 
In the next number I will refer to the profession as taught in 
Canada, and propose a scheme for placing the profession in America 
(United States and Canada) in a position proportionate to its impor¬ 
tance and requirements of both Countries. 
