658 
EDITORIALS. 
If, with all these promises, the attitude of the entire board of 
officers of the University is taken into consideration, and the 
resolutions which have been passed at their meeting in June are 
carried out, it is certain that we can look toward the early estab¬ 
lishment of a true veterinary school in this continent. The first 
which will possess an official position before the people, and 
which we sincerely hope may prove worthy of the great State 
where it will be established—a child of the State which will 
always have and require the support, moral and material, of its 
mother. 
Another Veterinary College. —From the slip cut out 
of the Report , a Californian paper, we received notice that the 
establishment of a new veterinary college was contemplated, 
under the name of the San Francisco College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. The notice, its reading, the booming which it con¬ 
tains, had a peculiar odor of self-admiration and of quackery, 
and we feared that a good object was going to be used for per¬ 
sonal benefit. 
Later on, however, our anxiety has been quieted by the 
official first circular, which has just reached us, of the California 
Veterinary College, in which we find the names of several gen¬ 
tlemen reported as millionaires and ready to back up the Board 
of Faculty, in which we find the names of four veterinarians, 
three of English and one of American graduation. 
The requirements for gradiiation will be three years attend¬ 
ance and a term of NINE months , and we are informed by private 
notes just at hand is accepted and is a branch of the University 
of California. 
And so on rolls the ball. Three-years’ studies are now the 
order in respectable veterinary institutions. A step which soon 
will be accepted by all, and in which The REVIEW takes pride 
for her successful efforts in behalf of the improvement of veter¬ 
inary education. But there is another step which we have so far 
failed to notice, viz.: a change in the formation of Faculty, in 
the election to professorships. They ought to be granted only 
