American Veterinary Review. 
MARCH, 1896. 
EDITORIAL 
The United States Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion and her Next Calling. —The United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association has for the last few years assumed 
a position to which her national organization has given her a 
certain amount of claim in relation to the elevation of Amer¬ 
ican veterinary science, and to the advancement of education 
in our veterinary colleges. 
Through her energy, the changes made in many of our 
schools, from two to three years’ studies, have marked a great 
step in her history; through the repeated suggestions made 
at her meetings, it is certain that the laws regulating the 
practice of our art owe much of the realization of the wishes 
expressed by the creation of Boards of Examiners in some of 
our States, and much can be expected from the good inten¬ 
tions and work of the society born from her—the Association 
of the Faculties of Veterinary Colleges of North America. 
For all of which, we believe the Review can claim the greater 
part of the credit in their realization, as by her efforts and by 
our special and repeated callings these improvements have little 
by little been realized. 
At the Chicago meeting in 1894, in a paper that was read 
on “ Veterinar}^ Education,” among the suggestions made 
there was one asking for the creation in the United States of 
a National Board of Examiners—a suggestion which was 
dropped on account, it was stated, of the impossibility of such 
an organization because of the fact that State laws could not 
be ignored, and therefore a national board could not be created. 
The author of the paper, a foreigner, who was probably 
not very well acquainted with the laws of this country, seemed 
