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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Member of the United States Veterinary Medical Association at 
the last semi-annual meeting, held in Boston, March 19th inst. 
We are pleased to inform our readers that Prof. F. W. Pren¬ 
tice, M.B.C.V.S.L., of the Illinois Industrial University, has 
satisfactorily passed his examination for the degree of M.D., be¬ 
fore the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. The step 
taken by Prof. Prentice to obtain his title of M.D., is one which 
cannot be too much encouraged in this country as a means of ob¬ 
taining from the public the respect which is so much due to 
veterinary science. We believe that there are now in Amer¬ 
ica more veterinarians, graduates of human medicine, than in any 
other part of the world. 
CORRESPONDENCE 
Chicago, Ills., March 12, 1878. 
Prof. A. Liautard, Editor Am. Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir : I have sent to you a printed copy of a paper on 
veterinary sanitary reform, which was prepared by me, and read 
at the meeting of the National Agricultural Congress, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., on the 20th day of February, this year, by the 
Secretary of said Congress, before a large audience. There were 
present members of both houses of the National Congress, and 
delegates, regularly appointed by State Boards of Agriculture, 
agricultural colleges, State Granges, and other prominent agricul¬ 
tural organizations, representing twenty-two States and Territories, 
besides delegates from five of the civilized Indian nations. The 
merits of the paper were argued by Drs. Snodgrass, Cochrane, 
Periam, and others. It was referred to the Committee on Busi¬ 
ness, and the following resolution in relation to the matter, by 
Dr. Snodgrass, was adopted: 
“ Resolved, That veterinary practice in this country is quite too generally 
unscientific and empirical; that the need of educating skilled veterina¬ 
rians is imperative, and the attention of agricultural colleges is respect¬ 
fully and urgently directed to more vigorous efforts in this direction.” 
Need I tell you that I was very much disappointed on reading 
