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EDITORIAL. 
upon the best of authority, that the bill is dead, and so is 
Assembly Bill No. 25, which sought to permit Charles McCor¬ 
mick to become registered. 
During the latter part of February the profession of this 
State was notified by its argus-eyed Legislative Committee of 
the introduction in the Assembly by Mr. Hughes, of Brooklyn, 
of Bill No. 231, creating the office of State Veterinarian, defin¬ 
ing his duties, compensation, etc. The source of this bill was a 
matter of much speculation, and, as it had not emanated from 
the State Society, which is looked upon as the representative of 
the profession as a whole in the State, the conclusion reached 
was that this, too, was a matter of special legislation, and a 
political bill. Upon another page of this issue of the Review 
will be found a very manly letter from the author and respon¬ 
sible source of this bill, Dr. William H. Pendry, who states his 
reasons for its promulgation and for the withholding of his name 
until the profession had thoroughly criticised it. While the 
Review very much doubts the wisdom of the policy which he 
has pursued, it very readily accords to him credit for an un¬ 
doubted honesty of purpose. Dr. Pendry is entitled to a great 
deal of consideration by the profession of this State, as it was 
almost by his unaided efforts and indefatigable bull-dog persis¬ 
tency that our present admirable protective law is upon the 
statute book. In the days when it was secured there were few 
who believed the law wise, and not a few openly villified the 
Doctor for his exertions, claiming that it were better to have 
gone on as we had been going than to have licensed the non- 
o-raduates ; it would be hard to find a veterinarian now who 
would not concede that the law was fair, and just, and the best, 
under the circumstances. From this we simply wish to show 
that the author of the present bill is not a novice, nor one who 
is devoid of a consuming desire to serve the profession of his 
adoption, as he has always done ; but we take issue with him 
upon the methods he has adopted in presenting this bill at 
Albany. Instead of being an individual effort, it should have 
been a concerted demand of the authorized representatives of 
