The appropriation by the State legislature of $25,000 for the hospital of the veterinary department was conditioned upon the establishing of 12 free scholarships, to be held by students nominated by the governor of the Commonwealth. There are also 3 city prize scholarships, to which appointments are made by the Board of Education of the city of Philadephia.

On June 8, 1887, the first veterinary class graduated, numbering 10. On June 6, 1888, the second veterinary class graduated, numbering 14. June 5, 1889, third veterinary class graduated; number, 7.

On September 24, 1889, a board of managers of the hospital was appointed, consisting of five trustees, five citizens, and two members of the faculty; two more citizens were added in 1890.

In October, 1889, Dr. Huidekoper resigned his professorship and severed his connection with the school, which so largely owed its organization to his zeal and labors. The titles of several chairs were changed; that of Internal Pathology and Zoötechnics to the Theory and Practice of Veterinary Medicine; that of Veterinary Anatomy to Veterinary Anatomy and Zoötechnics. Dr. John Marshall, assistant professor of chemistry in the medical department, whose marked executive ability in the management of its chemical laboratories indicated his fitness for the position, was made dean of the faculty.

In 1890 Charles Williams, V. M. D., was elected lecturer on practice of veterinary medicine.

June 5, 1890, the fourth class graduated, numbering 24.

This record of the progress of the Veterinary Department from its beginning up to the present time shows, we think, an interest and energy which assure its becoming a "great institution."

The list of required studies in this department looks formidable, but a close inspection of it will show that there is not an ornamental branch of knowledge mentioned in it, nor one that is not indispens able to the education of one who aspires to become a thoroughly trained veterinarian both in theory and in practice. What a contrast it suggests to former opportunities and to those who from want of education and training practiced only crude and purely empirical methods.

The veterinarian in this country has not yet been granted the posi tion to which he is entitled. He deserves rank in the army, for his office is of the first importance to the successful movement of battalions and squadrons. In civil life he should have to do not only with the treatment of individual cases but with the epidemics and their causes, and with the inspection of animals living and dead, and of all foods derived from them. He should have summary power to stamp out contagious disease due to animal or vegetable parasites, or due to other causes, for in doing this there is no estimate of the saving of human life that may be accomplished. The writer has no doubt that most if not all of the outbreaks of mysterious human disease which suddenly invade parts of all countries with great fatality have their origin in some form