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summer at Simla and to non-commisssoned officers, farriers, &c., during the
winter at Umballa should be sanctioned by the authorities, and become duly-
enforced.
These classes have since been continued under the orders of His Excel-
lency the Commander-in-Chief in India.
Ajmere Vete-
rinary School.
6. About the year 1881 Mr. Hallen, Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon, &c.,
recommended to the Government of India that instruction in veterinary matters
should be given to the young native chiefs of the Mayo College at Ajmere in
order that they might have some knowledge regarding the management, breed-
ing, and rearing of horse and cattle stock, so that when reigning in their several
States they might take an interest in such matters, and induce their subjects and
tenantry to adopt the industries of cattle and horse-breeding on scientific lines,
and so render valuable help in developing the revenues of their country.
7. Again a proposal to establish a veterinary school at Ajmere to
allow native chiefs of Rajputana to send men for sound instruction in veteri-
nary matters was made by Colonel G. H. Trevor, C.S.I., Agent to the Gover-
nor General in Rajputana, and was warmly supported by Mr. Hallen in his
letter No. 37 R. & A., dated 1st February 1891, to the Secretary to the Govern-
ment of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department; and in the scheme for
the organization of a Civil Veterinary Department in India, provision was made
for a Veterinary officer of that department to preside over the institution.
8. Colonel Trevor warmly interested himself in the scheme, and
addressed the several Darbars of Rajputana through the Political officers by
circular, and had the pleasure of receiving replies which justified his saying
that annual subscriptions to the extent of Rs. 6,504 had been promised to
meet the cost of the scheme sketched in Mr. Hallen's printed letter No. 37-
R. & A. above quoted. Moreover, that there would be no difficulty in raising
a sum of Rs. 10,000 for the construction of the college buildings at Ajmere
if required. Colonel Trevor adds " that the Commissioner of Ajmere, Colonel
J. Biddulph, is strongly in favor of the proposed veterinary school. In fact, I
have not heard a single dissentient voice."
9. The establishment of the veterinary school has accordingly been
sanctioned by the Government of India. The necessary buildings are now
being erected on a suitable site in a suburb of Ajmere; Veterinary Captain
Hagger, C.V.D., has been appointed Principal, and a staff of lecturers will
shortly be nominated. It is expected that the school will be formally opened
by Colonel Trevor, Agent to the Governor-General of Rajputana, during the
coming winter.
Veterinary
School, Luck-
now.
10. It is contemplated by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western
Provinces, Sir Charles Crosthwaite, K.C.S.I, &c., on the recommendation of
Veterinary Major G. J. R. Rayment, F.R.C.V.S., Civil Veterinary Department, &c.,
to establish a veterinary school at Lucknow, where the native chiefs are fully
cognisant of the desirability of having such an institution to meet the demands
for veterinary aid made by the agriculturists. This school will be available
for the education of men of the several districts in Oudh and the North-Western
Provinces.
Calcutta Ve-
terinary Institu-
tion.
11. On the completion of their duties during 1869-71, the Cattle Plague
Commissioners of India deemed it their duty to advise the Government of
India to establish a veterinary college in Calcutta with a view to providing
duly qualified native veterinarians for the cattle districts of Lower Bengal and
Assam. As the ravages committed by contagious diseases common amongst
cattle caused heavy loss to agriculturists and more or less marred the revenue
interests, the President of the Commission, Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon
J. H. B. Hallen, and his able coadjutor on the Commission, Dr. Kenneth
McLeod, conjointly earnestly urged the necessity of the measure.