EDITORIAL- 
305 
The gentlemen of the western part of the State will cer¬ 
tainly remember the lack of sympathy accorded to them. A 
feeling of professional friendship and interest on their part 
had been rewarded by a want of even delicate courtesy from 
those who ought to have shown it. The meeting of the New 
York Veterinary Medical Society was not, however, a failure. 
Some important matters were discussed ; great interest was 
shown by those who were present; and the manner in which 
all the transactions were disposed of showed a will in the 
members to carry on such work as they had in hand, which 
tells well for the future of the Association. 
The next meeting, we believe, is appointed to take place 
in January, at Syracuse. Eastern New York veterinarians 
will do well to try then to repair their error of said month. 
But who knows ? If it was too hot to come to New York in 
August, perhaps it will be too cold to go to Syracuse in 
January. 
We received the transactions of the meeting too late for 
this number; they will appear in our next issue. 
United States Veterinary Medical Association. 
—As will be seen by the programme printed below, the 
twenty-eighth annual meeting of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association will be held on the 15th of this month in 
Washington. Though this is called the twenty-eighth meeting, 
it would seem that after all it is butth e second meeting, for, cor¬ 
rectly speaking, it is only since the meeting in Chicago last 
year that the Association has assumed its true national char¬ 
acter. 
Last year great efforts were made by Western veterinarians 
to make the meeting a success. There cannot be a doubt 
that this year Eastern members of the profession will exert 
themselves to reciprocate with interest the attentions they 
received in Chicago. This meeting will assume, besides, 
more the appearance of being of a national character by reason 
of its taking place in the capital of the United States ; and 
this seems to us one of the wisest moves the Association has 
made for a long while. 
According to the notice of the Secretary, papers of inter- 
