American Veterinary Review. 
FEBRUARY, 1896. 
EDITORIAL. 
The Association of Faculties of the Veterinary 
Colleges of North America— A Last Word.— When 
last summer, through unforeseen private circumstances, I 
found myself obliged to be absent from the meeting of the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association, and from that 
of the Association of Faculties of the Veterinary Colleges 
of North America, I felt that it was my duty to present, 
through the chairman of the association, the protest which he 
so kindly took charge of—a friendly act—for which I thank 
him. 
This protest I wrote as the result of long and careful con¬ 
sideration, and with the best intentions and motives. I 
addressed it to him, as I had his letters as chairman of the 
committee, and I had a number of copies printed for distri¬ 
bution, for no other object than to facilitate the understanding 
and discussion of the subject before the meeting, and by the 
association. 
To have misconstrued the idea and the object of my doings 
in supposing that I was trying to break up the association, 
prevent its work, etc., is something that I cannot understand, 
as I cannot, even now, after repeated readings of the protest, 
find the slightest expression of such meaning. That 1 have 
insinuated that some honored gentlemen of our profession 
had assumed a title to which they had no claim, by repre¬ 
senting themselves as official delegates of veterinary institu¬ 
tions, is an interpretation which does me great injustice, and 
which careful reading of the protest will reveal. 
