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medical school to turn out practitioners of the healing art. That a 
course like this would squander resources, lull the public mind into a 
a false security, deny the teachers, the time requisite for observation, 
experiment and progress, and rob the government of that sound advice 
and assistance which it has a right to expect from the outlay. Finally, 
that to place veterinary science and veterinary education in its true posi¬ 
tion, where it would be of unspeakable value to the people and to the 
government, a thorough National Veter inary School is desirable. The 
concluding paragraph sums up all : 
“ If the government can undertake the establishing of a veterinary 
college, with a sufficiently extended curriculum to make it worthy of 
the name, it will prove an excellent investment, if properly officered and 
furnished; but no such good can ever be expected from the endowment 
of fifty separate professorships, each in a different institution, and each 
expected to turn out veterinarians. This would be the most efficient way 
to make the teaching superficial and imperfect, and to destroy the very 
possibility of observation, experiment and progress. Let us, if we can, 
have a National Veterinary College ; but do not let us squander our 
means on a host of isolated chairs, which can never fill the existing 
void, and the creation of which will only postpone, indefinitely, that 
concentrated and efficient work, by which the permanent protection of 
our live stock may be the better assured.” 
There is not one word throughout about making veterinarians of agricul¬ 
turists. That was not the subject in hand, and received none of my 
attention. Your remarks on this subject are, therefore, entirely outside 
the question. I have stated, above, my views as to the value of a veter¬ 
inary education to the agriculturist, and of the educated farmer to the 
veterinarian, in a way which, I think, cannot be misunderstood. Un¬ 
fortunately, the time allowed in our agricultural curriculum does not 
allow of as full a course in veterinary science as I could wish the future 
farmer to receive. But, as it is, the course is invaluable, and I could 
wish to see all agricultural colleges furnishing just as full instruction in 
veterinary science, as “Cornell ” has given to her agricultural pupils in 
the nine years of her existence. 
Yours, etc., James Law. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
Editor Veterinary Review : 
Sir : In your April, May, June and December numbers, appeared 
communications from Mr. Duncan MacNabb MacEachran, of the 
Montreal Veterinary College, headed as above. Very little was said, 
