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EDITORIAL. 
Sixth International Congress of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine. —This important event, which was decided upon after the 
Congress of 1889, is to take place at Bern, in Switzerland, dur¬ 
ing the year 1895. We have received a notice from the com¬ 
mittee of organization, a translation of which we present here 
to our readers. It may be thought by us Americans that this is 
an early step; but we cannot be judges of it, especially after 
our experience of last November. 
The letter reads as follows : 
“ To the Veterinary Colleges , Professional Societies and to all Veterinarians of Every 
Country. 
“Gentlemen and Honored Colleagues: —At the close of the Fifth Interna¬ 
tional Congress of Veterinary Medicine in 1889, it was decided that the next Congres 
should be held in 1894, in Switzerland, and that its organization was to be left in* the 
hands of the Swiss members of the Fifth Congress. 
“Following a report made by one of the members to the Swiss government, it has 
been decided that the Sixth International Veterinary Congress shall be held at Berne 
(Switzerland) in 1895, and the following committee was appointed: President, Colonel 
Potterat, chief army veterinarian; First Vice-President, Prof. H. Berdez, Director of 
the Veterinary School of Berne; Second Vice-President, Prof. Hirzel, President of the 
Swiss Veterinary Society at Zurich; Secretary, Prof. Noyer, of the school of Berne; 
Members, Messrs. Schindler of Glaris; Suter, of Diertal; Gillurd of Locle; Knusel of 
Lucorne, and Beretta of Lugano.” 
Following this request made by the President and Secretary 
of the Committee of Organization for any suggestions or propo¬ 
sitions of general interest that can be offered, and that will assist 
in the organization of a programme which will help the Sixth 
Congress to be equal, at heart, to those of Brussels and of Paris. 
We will, no doubt, receive more communications in relation to 
this important event, and will not fail to lay them before our 
readers. 
Veterinary Education. —This subject has been before 
the professors of America for a long while ; it has been talked 
and talked over, suggestions after suggestions have been offered, 
papers after papers have been read before associations; and 
what has been the result ? As far as we can see, to this day, 
nothing. By a resolution of Prof. Osgood, offered at the last 
meeting of the U. S. V. M. Association, a Committee on Veter- 
