Veterinary Conference File

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ID: 17/1/16

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign. College of Veterinary Medicine

Extent: 1.6 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological then alphabetical

Subjects: Extension Education, Veterinary Medicine

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Veterinary Conference File, including manuscript, printed and carbon copies of programs, speeches, press releases, attendance records, proceedings, minutes, lists of expenditures and material pertaining to conference plans. The 1940 material contains photographs of the participants of the conference and demonstration operations. The veterinary conferences are for graduate veterinarians and were formed to present the latest developments of greatest interest to practitioners through lectures, demonstrations and reports of different techniques in the treatment of animals.

The correspondence from 1920-56 is to and from the Chief of Animal Pathology and Hygiene, Dr. Robert Graham and after 1956, Dr. Carl Alfred Brandly, Dean of the Veterinary Medicine School. Correspondents include Dr. H. P. Rusk, D. J. Davis, J. Howard Beard and N. Mayo.

Biographical Note

The College of Veterinary Medicine, a professional college with four departments and a diagnostic service was established on June 1, 1944.1 A bill was introduced into the State legislature to establish the college in 1919, but no appropriations were made until 1944.2 The first course in Veterinary Medicine was taught in 1870.3 The Veterinary Infirmary opened January 9, 1871.4 In 1911 the Department of Veterinary Science was organized under the College of Agriculture.5 In 1917, the Department of Veterinary Science was incorporated into the Department of Animal Husbandry under the College of Agriculture.6 In 1941, the Trustees created the Department of Animal Pathology and Hygiene to carry out the instructional and research work formerly located in the Department of Animal Husbandry.7 In 1957, a graduate program in Veterinary Medical Science was begun replacing the existing program in Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene.8

This unit covers:

--Director of Laboratory Animal Care

--Veterinary Medical Research Farm

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 42nd Report, June 1, 1944, p. 958.

2. Ibid., 30th Report, May 16, 1919, p. 333.

3. Ibid., 4th Report, March 7, 1871, p. 66.

4. Ibid., 4th Report, March 15, 1871, p. 101.

5. Ibid., 26th Report, July 8, 1911, p. 448.

6. Ibid., 29th Report, July 31, 1917, p. 461.

7. Ibid., 41st Report, August 5, 1941, p. 410-11.

8. Ibid., 49th Report, December 17, 1957, p. 1007.

Subject/Index Terms

Extension Education
Veterinary Medicine

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 6/31/1969

Other Note: 3 Pages

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