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EDITORIAL. 
article which has been the subject of his gracious condescen¬ 
sion we deplored what, in our humble judgment, appeared to 
be a cruel injustice to the profession of veterinary medicine ; 
and we were, therefore, especially outspoken, since we con¬ 
sidered that the result complained of had been obtained un¬ 
fairly and by a subterfuge. The editor in question indulged 
in considerable nonsensical abuse of this journal; but, while 
occupying two whole pages of his valuable space, fails to 
utter a word in refutation of the justice or accuracy of our 
charges. He makes the serious counter-charge, however, 
against us that, in our ignorance, we hav.e committed the 
heinous offence of dubbing the State Society an cissocicition, but 
destroys the beauty of his accurate English by asserting that 
ii there were, therefore, no option, etc. He replies to our 
charge that the afternoon session was called to order and the 
morning’s proceedings rescinded and expunged from the 
minutes when certain opponents had not returned to the hall, 
by villifying one of those who had departed with the firm 
conviction that the proposition to admit teachers upon the 
board had been defeated for all time. He chaiacterizes this 
man who had stood up for fair play as one who “interfered” 
with the morning session, and he further deplores the fact 
that he had not been gagged for being in arrears with his 
dues, but makes no mention of the subsequent expulsion of 
his co-editor from the society for owing three times as much 
money as that certain opponent were charged with withhold¬ 
ing from the empty coffers of the State Society, and which 
the said opponent have since paid in full, and for which he 
holds the Society s receipt. 
His “ reply ” goes on to charge the editor-in-chief of this 
journal with being a citizen of France, and other serious mis- 
• demeanors for which his ancestors are in part responsible. 
One, and only one, of the offences which are succinctly 
made the object of his vituperation is worthy of our serious 
consideration; the others are foolish, ridiculous, childish, and 
unworthy of any consideration whatever, save as a method 
to evade the real point at issue ; and that offence is that the 
staff editors of The Review have failed to attend the meet-- 
