Because of the successive annual deficits in the account of the Veterinary Department of the University, the Corporation has decided to receive no more students of veterinary medicine, and to close the Free Clinic forthwith, and the Veterinary Hospital on the first of June next. The present members of the School will be given the instruction needed for graduation.

In the eighteen years of its existence, the Veterinary Department has received no endowment; and the Corporation has become convinced that the Department can not be successfully carried on unless endowed. During the past seventeen years 119 men have graduated from the School. At present there are 17 students, of whom 10 are members of the first year class.

It is the first time in the whole history of Harvard University that a body of professional instruction, once established, has been abandoned.

The school was established in 1882 and was the first veterinary school in the country to have a full university connection and to confer an authoritative diploma in animal medicine. The school occupies two adjoining buildings at Village and Lucas streets, Boston. The hospital is a substantial three story brick building containing a large operating room, stalls and boxes for horses and kennels for dogs and cats. The free clinic was opened to the public in February, 1896.