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EDITORIAL. 
Not an American Citizen— “On the contrary, can the 
Review deny that one of its editors, not an American citizen , 
did not use endeavors to interfere with the recent legislation 
at Albany.” ' ! 
Such are the expressions published in the September issue 
of the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives. 
This is such an erroneous imputation that I feel it a duty 
to myself and my past professional life to most emphatically 
deny it. 
At the first congress of veterinarians, held in Chicago, in 
a paper that I presented there, I urged, in a national point of 
view, almost all that is contained in the law recently passed 
in Albany (see A. V. R., Volume XVII, Pages 594 and fol- i 
lowing). 
Later on, at a meeting of the New York State Veterinary 
Medical Society, I said: 
“ The creation of a board of examiners is a matter that I 
cannot too strongly indorse. I have on previous occasions, 
and in various papers, pointed out the importance I attach 
to the existence of such a board, and if I erred in calling for 
a national board, overlooking, as I did, the difficulties that 
exist in the creation of such a body through the fact of State 
rights, I am perfectly satisfied to see the plan started to-day 
in each individual State, until the moment has come when the 
importance of the veterinary profession will have been proved 
so powerfully as the guardian of our national agricultural 
wealth, the Federal government will then take hold of it in 
the proper way and make it one of its national institutions, as 
it is in the old world. 
“The conditions of admission to examination before the 
State board form the most interesting part, however, of the 
bill to the future veterinarian and to the existing places of 
education. 
Section 176 of the bill reads: 
The Regents shall admit to examination any candidate who is more than twenty- 
one years of age, of good moral character , has the general education required in all 
cases after Jtily I, 1896, preliminary to receiving a degree in veterinary medicine , not 
less than three full years, and has received a degree as veterinarian from some regis¬ 
tered veterinary school. 
“ Those requirements read all that we have been asking ! 
for, in fact all that which imposes itself upon veterinarians 
and upon veterinary schools of repute, that which must fiec- ! 
essarily be carried out all through the country in a very short 
time. 
