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EDITORIAL. 
even that regulates the admission of members to some of our 
State or county associations. What then ? On previous oc¬ 
casions, the subject had been somewhat considered by the rec¬ 
ommendation of a National Board of Examiners, but this is not 
without serious objections, among which one of the principal is 
the unconstitutionality of such a board: But if this cannot be 
obtained by federal legislation, why could it not by State law ? 
Already the question has been agitated, in some; in two States 
at least, bills have been introduced into legislatures asking the 
creation of such a board with power to grant only certificates of 
qualification to practice in those States to graduates holding a 
degree from a three-years’ course. So far as we know, these 
bills have not yet become laws, but when we consider the tide 
which is now growing in relation to the requirements of veter¬ 
inarians, we have no doubt as to their ultimate adoption. And 
then the number of graduates, if it is diminished in quantity, 
will certainly be of better quality, and we will then, and only 
then, be justified in boasting of a truly American veterinary 
profession, even if the education was obtained from schools 
other than those that we have in the United States. 
New York State Veterinary College. —When nearly 
forty years have passed since the legislature of the State of 
New York recognized the importance of veterinary education 
in granting the first charter for the organization and establish¬ 
ment of a veterinary college in the Excelsior City, and after 
completely-ignoring the efforts that have been made since, and 
which have proved so successful in the hands of some private 
undertakings in sowing the seeds from which rose the American 
veterinary profession of to-day, the legislators of the Empire 
State have awoke from their almost semi-centurial lethargy and 
have made a call upon the State financial treasury and appro¬ 
priated $50,000 to establish a State veterinary college at Cor¬ 
nell University, “for the purpose of constructing and equipping 
buildings suitable for such college upon the grounds of said 
university at Ithaca.” 
