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EDITORIAL. 
surgeons throughout the State as their services are required by 
the commissioner. Heretofore the medical practitioner was 
also available for duty as a veterinary inspector, but this bill 
rightfully makes the veterinarian the sole recipient of such ap¬ 
pointment, and the New York State Society the nominator of 
the various available inspectors in the different agricultural 
districts. There can be no question as to the wisdom of these 
two bills. The Commissioner of Agriculture should have super¬ 
vision of the diseases of domestic animals, just as the analogous 
Federal department has, and the Review will always strenuously 
oppose the divorcing of the veterinarian from the agriculturist, 
just as it will the appointment of human physicians to determine 
upon the diseases of animals, when we have qualified and com¬ 
petent men in our own ranks trained for just such work. There 
can be no two opinions as to a third objection to the bill to 
create a State veterinarian, and that is that the position should 
be competitive under the laws of civil service. The position of 
Veterinarian of the great Empire State should not be another 
u spoils ” office, created or removed by the varying fortunes of 
political parties. A competent veterinarian placed in that office 
should remain there during the period of his proper perform¬ 
ance of duty, and the longer he retains his position, if he con¬ 
scientiously fills his post, the better service can be rendered his 
State and his profession. 
We advise our confreres to go slowly ; bring before the 
Society at Syracuse next September any ideas which they think 
will be of good to our calling and beneficial to our country, and 
there and then let us agree among ourselves, what we want, and 
then ask for it, and we think it will be given unto us. 
Vivisection in ^he Puepit. —It seems hardly credible, and 
yet the unexpected has happened, as we can record a case of 
vivisection in a Christian church. The city where this hap¬ 
pened is Cadillac, Mich., and the unchristian experimenter is 
the Rev. W. R. Raughman. In order to demonstrate the bane¬ 
ful effect of tobacco he secured two cats and purchased some 
