VETERINARY COLLEGES- 
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From the German “ Veter inaer Kale ruler ” for 1879, Vienna. 
Translated by J. Gertii, Student, 
AMERICA. 
New York. (The American Veterinary College.) Faculty: 
Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Liautard; Professors: Dr. A. 
Large, Dr. A. W. Stein, Dr. J. L. Pobertson, Dr. S. P. Percy; 
Adjunct Professors : Dr. A. A. Holcombe, Dr. F. A.Lyons; Lectu¬ 
rer on Histology: Dr. M. H. Miller ; Demonstrator of Anatomy : 
Dr. J. W. Coates; Prosector of Anatomy: Dr. A. H. Pose; 
Curator of the Museum ; P. H. McLean. 
The college was organized in 1875, and it is the first Veterin¬ 
ary Institute in the United States promising to be successful. 
The faculty is the same that constituted the “Hew York College 
of Veterinary Surgeons” for ten years. (Closed lately). The 
college follows in its course of instruction, the European system, 
especially that adopted by the French schools. This is principally to 
be ascribed to its present and deserving Director, Dr. A. Liautard. 
To be admitted into this most creditable and eminent Veterinary 
College of the United States, a good academical or a strict 
matriculatory examination is required. The course of instruction 
lasts three years , and it endeavors to give the students a thorough 
theoretical and practical education. It comprises the funda¬ 
mental medical sciences, and the special branches of veterinary 
medicine. About 400 lectures and clinics, on comparative and 
veterinary anatomy, physiology, chemistry, theory and practice 
of veterinary medicine, surgery, obstetrics, materia medica and 
therapeutics, jurisprudence, sanitary medicine, external forms of 
the horse, art of shoeing and pharmacy, are delivered during a 
regular Winter session of five months, and a Spring session 
immediately following. The students are obliged to pass an 
examination at the end of every year. The museum contains the 
largest and best collection on the American continent, consisting 
