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EDITORIAL. 
our personal compliments are specially due to our friend Dr. 
Bailey, who, we believe, has on the present occasion once 
more shown how fully he has realized the serious nature of 
the charges he has alleged against the Massachusetts officials ; 
and we are assured that he has neglected none of the proofs 
necessary to sustain the position he has assumed. 
Veterinary Graduates. —The. following figures repre¬ 
sent the record of the graduation of students at the last com¬ 
mencement exercises of our American veterinary schools : 
The American Veterinary College contributed 47 ; the New 
York College of Veterinary Surgeons 29 ; the Chicago Vet¬ 
erinary College 70; the Ohio Veterinary College 16; and - 
to these may be added 74 from the Toronto Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, and some 16 from the Veterinary Department of McGill 
University, with others still from schools whose college years 
have not yet expired. There are again, the veterinary de¬ 
partments of various agricultural colleges, and still others of 
other schools, from which we have received no intelligence. 
Altogether we make out, hypothetically, 252 new veterinarians 
as the result of the work of the year, and this number is about 
one-eighth of the entire array of regular veterinarians to be 
found in this entire country within a comparatively recent 
period. 
A careful consideration of these figures, and a compari¬ 
son of the success which has attended the establishment of 
veterinary schools, might furnish a strong argument in favor 
of the views of those who do not consider the present time as 
a proper one for a change in their curriculum in some of our 
schools ; but, on our part, we think that no better argument 
could be devised in favor of the establishment of an Ameii- 
can National Board of Examiners, with authority to confei the 
diploma of “ The Veterinary College of America, which should 
be the only recognized certificate of competency to practice in 
the United States. Having been the first to call the attention 
of our national organization to the creation of such a Board, 
and freely devoted our editorial columns to the advocacy of 
the proposition and enforcement of our reasons for urging 
the matter upon our brethren, we feel justified, in the pres- 
