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EDITORIAL. 
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graduated from one or more of our most eminent and best 
reputed schools. We are not sure of the exact number of 
cards sent to us inscribed with the name of parties calling 
themselves graduates of the American Veterinary College, 
but they are very many. 
Now, to simplify the work of answering all these let¬ 
ters, communications and solicitations, we will remark 
that every school publishes yearly a revised list of its 
own and regular graduates, and that such a list is authen¬ 
tic and official , and that consequently, the.name of every man 
who claims to have been graduated by any designated school, 
if his claim is a true one, will be contained in that list. If it 
is not, he is an impostor ; that is the long and short of it, and 
he is liable to legal prosecution. 
But that is not the only kind of feather likely to be bor¬ 
rowed. These are easily identified, and plucked, leaving the 
bird cold and featherless, ready for singeing, and merely 
covered by his own confusion. But there are other persons 
who, without being anxious to be known as graduates of a 
school, assume the general title of veterinarian, merely. 
To this, we suppose that in this country no one ought 
to object. In this land of liberty a man may clothe himself 
with all the titles he fancies, and if he is allowed to go at 
large wearing the plumage of a general, colonel, captain, 
honorable, doctor, judge, professor, and so on to the end, 
if there is truly any end to the catalogue of pseudo notables 
_we do not say not ables —why should the title of veterina¬ 
rian be held too sacred to go on the list among other preno- 
minal handles ? All the feathers, we fear, will never be plucked 
off. 
Our friends in Western Iowa, however, have, somehow, 
imbibed peculiar notions on this subject, which are forcibly 
and practically expressed in a bill which is about to be intro¬ 
duced in the Legislature of that State, and which, if enacted 
into a law, cannot but tend to cause discomfort and discom¬ 
posure in the minds of a number of individuals. The aim of 
this projected measure is to prevent the false assumption of 
the title of veterinarian or any analagous designation, by 
