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EDITORIAL. 
Dr. O’Shea, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New York County, a resume 
of legislation affecting the veterinary profession during the ses¬ 
sion that had just closed. It was surprising to note the 
number of bills that had been introduced in the interests of pri¬ 
vate individuals, all or any of which, if they had become laws, 
would have worked incalculable injury to the legitimate profes¬ 
sion in New York State. Only for the vigilance of the commit¬ 
tees of the State and County Societies many of these would 
have been placed upon the statute books, but they opposed 
them so vigorously that their progress was estopped—only to be 
renewed again when their vigilance was less energetic. The 
question of employing permanent counsel in Albany had been 
favorably discussed by the County Society, his duties to consist 
of a daily scrutiny of the bills to be introduced. Last winter 
this work was done by the voluntary act of an Albany practi¬ 
tioner, Dr. William Henry Kelly, of the State Society, and it was 
largely through the alarm sent out by him that the profession 
was apprised of impending adverse legislation. It would ap¬ 
pear that the proposition to retain counsel resident at the capital 
is more imperative for the coming winter than ever before, as 
the rumor is now afloat that an attempt upon a large scale will 
be made at the next session to break the law which has placed 
our colleges under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents and 
our examinations in the hands of the Board of Examiners. The 
enactment of these laws is in the direct line of the educational 
advancement which is everywhere manifest, and no power on 
earth should be exerted to break them down. It does not affect the 
question, so far as the Review is concerned, that the appoint¬ 
ment of that Board of Examiners was in direct opposition to 
our conception of the manner in which it should have been ; 
that some of its members should never have been placed there; 
that some of them are a direct affront to a large part of the le¬ 
gitimate profession of the State. The Board itself is the logical 
climax of the demands of the profession for a higher standard 
of proficiency, and it must be preserved, even though it should 
