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EDITOKIAL. 
We bespeak for this year’s meeting of the U. S. V. M. A. 
a full attendance, interesting papers, liberal discussions, abund¬ 
ance of good fellowship, and plenty of social enjoyment. 
Meeting of the Faculties. —We call attention to the 
meeting of the Association of Veterinary Faculties of North 
America, which will take place on the occasion of the conven¬ 
ing of the National Association at Des Moines, Iowa, occu¬ 
pying the evenings of the first two days. Elsewhere we print 
the programme, as furnished by Chairman Schwarzkopf, 
which displays a brilliant array of interesting subjects and 
interesting speakers. Dr. Detmers, of Columbus, in speaking 
upon the subject of “State Boards of Veterinary Medical 
Examiners and their Relation to Veterinary Colleges, espe¬ 
cially has an opportunity to engage the members with a live 
topic of the most vital interest to not only every association 
member in attendance, but every veterinarian in America, for 
the recent action of the Board of Regents of the State of New 
York, at the instigation of our own State Society, is a strike at 
the very foundation of the profession of veterinary medicine. 
Let the Society of Faculties enter its protest in the form of 
ringing resolutions of condemnation, so that the Regents may 
at once see the feeling of the colleges on their unprecedented 
action. If this were the only subject for discussion it would 
render this a most important meeting, but there are many 
others of much interest and profit. 
Prof. Law’s Connection with the Examining Board. 
—We have received and take much pleasure in printing upon 
another page, a long letter from Prof. James Law, of Cornell 
University, explanatory of his attitude in relation to the State 
Board of Veterinary Examiners, to which he was recently 
appointed by the Regents. We disclaim, and Prof. Law does 
not charge, any intention upon our part of uttering a word 
which shall be construed into a personal allusion, but we feel 
that such a cruel injustice has been inflicted upon the rank 
and file of the profession, and its future members, that our 
anguage is plain and unadorned by anything which is liable 
iO obscure our meaning. 
