D. McEACHRAN. 
£3 
tends, that they can acquire practical acquaintance with even the ordin¬ 
ary details of practice ? 
It is a notorious fact, however, and much to be regretted, that even 
this short course is not in all cases required. 
Great improvements have lately been made in this school by the 
enlargement and improvement of the buildings, especially the dissect¬ 
ing-room, and the addition of a large room for a museum as well as a 
room for a library. 
It will be a matter of surprise that, although this school has been in 
operation for fifteen years, almost no attempt has been made to collect 
the usual requisites for illustrating lectures, such as anatomical or 
pathological specimens, models, or diagrams ; no library, or any attempt 
at commencing one, has been in existence till last year, when the gov- 
rCCOgmzin S the importance of a museum and library, granted 
P UUU t0 be expended in books, models and diagrams. It is satis¬ 
factory to know from the last prospectus, that, “ the museum, when 
completed, will be the largest Veterinary Museum in Canada but it 
would be more so if we had some idea when it will be completed ; for 
1 tie progress made in this direction is not more active during the next 
fifteen years than during the past, young men of the present day will 
derive but little advantage from it. 
With the above facts before us, we can understand the reason why 
t e prospectus informs us that, “ we deem it unnecessary to give an 
extended and complicated description of the synopsis of lectures more 
likely to mystify than enlighten intending applicants.” This must mean 
one of three things—first, that the class of students expected are unedu¬ 
cated, or that they would be capable of understanding the nature of 
their studies ; secondly, a course so very technical and scientific as 
would deter intending students from attending them ; or, thirdly, such 
an arrangement of lectures as is incapable of being synoptically indi¬ 
cated in a prospectus. 
The latter, certainly, must be the case, if it is arranged to suit the’ 
convenience of students entering any day from October till January. 
As a sequence to the above, we find the advertisement of this school 
reading as follows : 
U rr 
i , e Ontario Veterinary College is attended by the largest num- 
ber of pupils, and has the greatest number of graduates in successful prac¬ 
tice of any Veterinary College in America. Apply to Dr. Smith, V. S.” 
Such is the Ontario Veterinary College. I sincerely wish I could 
have been more favorable in my criticism of it; but the dogged per- 
