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EDITORIAL. 
interfere with State rights. It goes without saying that such a 
result will be achieved in time, because the present system is 
altogether unsatisfactory to the friends of veterinary progress. 
Before this it was not possible to have made rules for the gov¬ 
ernment of all colleges teaching veterinary medicine, because 
they were as various in their methods and requirements as they 
were numerous. But the co-operative spirit of course exten¬ 
sion, the establishment of State laws making the extension ob¬ 
ligatory upon those who were reluctant, and other factors 
accompanying the educational advancement, all make a uni¬ 
formity of examination, and a degree which shall express and 
emphasize that uniformity, imperative at this stage in the in¬ 
cessant march. As contributing to the elucidation of this phase 
of the subject, we print with pleasure in this issue a communi¬ 
cation from a member of our sister profession, who recognizes 
the chaotic state in which we exist at present, and who has be¬ 
come interested in us by virtue of a comparative position in one 
of our Washington veterinary colleges. His plan is unique, and 
bears many good points, and now that the subject is under 
discussion the Review will be pleased to hear from others who 
have given the subject thought and have suggestions to make. 
Dr. Riautard’s Home-Coming. —On September 12th, 
Prof. Liautard, who has been sojourning in Paris since last 
spring, will return to New York, in time to assume his impor¬ 
tant functions in connection with the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege. His vacation, while bringing much needed rest, after 
nearly half a century of the most active and energetic service 
in behalf of the veterinary profession, for which he has done so 
much to advance it from incipiency to a high degree of devel¬ 
opment, has not been an idle one, for he brings with him some 
beautiful specimens and plates to be employed in his lectures 
during the forthcoming session of the college. The readers of 
the Review have been favored in every issue by a great mass of 
literary material from him, the most of them translations from 
the French, Italian, and Belgian journals, while the scientific 
