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EDITORIAL. 
The business management of the Review reports an enor¬ 
mous deficit in its returns. Subscriptions are due which have 
stood for years, and they have accumulated to such an 
amount that it has become a question of ridiculous self-sacri¬ 
fice to continue. In plain words, the situation resolves itself 
into this query: Shall the veterinarians of the United States 
continue to receive, read, profit by, and enjoy their Review 
gratis , or will they honestly pay for what they are glad to 
get? If among the 3,000 veterinary surgeons in the United 
States there are enough to support a regular organ of their 
profession, now is the time for them to say so. 
Will gentleman who are in arrears (which now aggregate 
the respectable amount of $3,000) kindly send their dues tc 
the publishers ? 
Ignoring this call will mean the suspension of our publica 
tion. 
The National Veterinary College.— The announce¬ 
ment of the establishment of this organization, contained ir 
our last issue, seems to have elicited a feeling anything but 
approbatory of the undertaking, or friendly to the gentlemer 
connected with it. We have shown by the publication 0: 
the resolutions of the Philadelphia Veterinary Society, in thd 
same issue, our willingness to open our columns to the pro 
fession for the free discussion of this subject, and this mus 
have been understood as we intended it to be if we trul) 
comprehend the intent of two letters sent to us for publica 
tion by Dr. A. E. Conrow, Secretary of the Philadelphia 
Veterinary Society, and which will be found below. W ( 
hope that other expressions of opinion may follow, for th< 
subject is one of no little importance, and the free comment 
of influential veterinarians may powerfully influence the coursi 
of the new management. We reserve for ourselves the righ 
to consider it at a later day. The text of the letters already 
received is as follows: 
IOWA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Ames, Iowa, October 7th, 1892. 
A. E. Conrow , M. D. 
Dear Sir :—A copy of the resolutions adopted by the Philadelphia Veter 
nary Society has been received at my office. I ha7e also received the announce 
ment of the Washington^Veterinary School. 
