EDITORIALS. 
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. Resolved i That should the foregoing seem impossible of conception, then, that a 
national board of examiners, composed of one delegate from each state veterinary 
society, should propound a number of examination questions to be changed yearly 
and to be used by the State Board of Examiners, who shall sit at a specific time and 
place to examine any graduate of veterinary medicine who may appear before them 
Said board to be elected by the State Society. 
. Resolved i That the various state legislatures should be asked to co-operate with 
said boards of examination from said board of examiners. Acheson, Sec. 
On motion of Dr. Osgood the foregoing was received and spread upon the minutes. 
Professional Etiquette.— What an important subject. 
How broad a field it covers, and yet how simple it is, and under 
what narrow limits it could be bound. In the issue of this 
month our friend, Dr. Giffen, offers us a paper read before one 
of the meetings of the Veterinary Medical Association of the 
County of New York. The Doctor has done well, as all of us 
can see, but how concise he has been. His paper could have 
covered the entire issue of this month’s Review, and would yet 
have been concise. Deontology is a thing unknown, we might 
say, among veterinarians. Professional etiquette is, in many 
instances, only in the codes of ethics of the societies. But how 
far are they carried out? 
In fact it is a question for us, how could it be otherwise? 
Are not those, from whom our young men could take example, 
themselves guilty of breach of ethics? And when we find this 
one or that one calling himself a V.S., D.V.S. or others alike, 
or qualifying himself as a graduate of this school or that college, 
or of that university, we are asking ourselves whether he is 
committing a breach of ethics more serious than Mr. Smith, who 
qualifies his card, the heading of his letter paper, or the corner 
of his envelope with his title of Professor of . . . Is the non¬ 
graduate, who tries to impose himself by an assumption of a 
title to which he has no claim and for which he can be prose¬ 
cuted as being assumed—is he doing a more unprofessional act 
than he who advertises himself as an officer of this society or a 
member of that society. We think not, and when we bear in 
mind that the Committee on Colleges of the United States 
\ eterinary Medical Association is going to take into considera- 
