editokial. 
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to hold semi-annually in various cities of the Union. In printing 
these records the Review has in many instances been obliged to 
exercise some degree of severity of judgment in its criticisms 
upon the doings and sayings of its venerated parent, and perhaps 
it has at times been irreverently forgetful of the difference 
between the ages of the party criticised and the party criticising. 
But if at times severe, we have never forgotten to endeavor always 
to be just, and we cannot be greatly blamed if our animadversions, 
taking into consideration the shortcomings of some—many—of 
the meetings, have been what they were. We reported the facts 
as they were, not as we wished them to be. 
But if we have freely judged such occurrences as, for example, 
a certain meeting at which some of the members assisted once in 
New York, we have with gratification unrepressed spoken approv¬ 
ingly when we could candidly do so, of a different kind of assem¬ 
blage. We spoke in just terms of certain profitable and pleasant 
meetings in Boston—we expressed our pleasure while recording a 
recent meeting in Philadelphia, with its agreeable features—we 
make fully known our satisfaction in reporting the latest of the 
meetings of the Association in Baltimore, which by those who 
attended it has been unanimously pronounced the best and most 
fruitful in useful results of all that have hitherto been held, not 
overlooking the very attractive and enjoyable social features per¬ 
taining to it, prompted by the characteristic hospitality of a genial 
people. 
The meeting was ostensibly that of the United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association, but in fact the Association became at 
once a guest of the little nucleus of genuinely good and true vet¬ 
erinarians who compose the Maryland State Veterinary Associa¬ 
tion, and right heartily was the work of the committee of arrange¬ 
ments performed. 
The meeting took place in the halls of the Medico-Chirurgi- 
cal Society of Baltimore, and a large representation of the pro¬ 
fession was present, with veterinarians from nearly every quarter 
of the land. The routine of general business was rapidly carried 
through, and after a magnificent lunch prepared by the State 
Society for its senior guest, the United States Association, the 
principal business of the meeting was taken in hand. 
