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EDITORIAL. 
this meeting and its results with praise and approval it has not 
been through any fault on our part, but rather because, save in 
rare and exceptional cases, we have been unable to discover that 
it has been our duty to do so—a thing sincerely to be regretted. 
But, lest the casual reading of the report of the meeting recently 
held in Philadelphia should fail to convey an adequate impression 
of the character of that assemblage and the good results to be 
anticipated from it, we deem it but an act of justice to call atten¬ 
tion to its proceedings with something more of emphasis and par¬ 
ticularity than the mere current mention of the occasion. The 
session was held under the call of the Comitia Minora, and varied 
greatly from the custom of former occasions in proving to be an 
interesting and highly profitable meeting. A desire to inspect 
the progress achieved by the Veterinary Department of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania doubtless had some influence in drawing 
together a portion of the large number in attendance; but, aside 
from this, the arrangements were so judicious and the efforts of 
the various committees so well directed and so thorough, that no 
one can be surprised at the unwonted response which followed the 
roll-call. There seemed to be almost a concerted rivalry between 
the Eastern and Western constituencies in contributing to the 
representation and the consequent zeal and earnestness of the pro¬ 
ceedings. We have attended nearly all the meetings of the 
Association, and with a single exception (that of the meeting of 
the Centennial year) we do not remember any other occasion so 
numerously attended, or when the work performed was ever so 
good and the membership so harmonious in spirit and sympa¬ 
thetic in feeling and purpose. The good that such gatherings 
might always accomplish, and the Valuable results which might be 
secured, if the membership generally could but be brought to 
realize their duty to each other and to the community, are well 
illustrated by this meeting and its results. 
The meeting of the Comitia Minora proved interesting, not 
only on account of the recommendation of a number of applicants 
for membership, but especially by reason of the notice given by 
Professor C. B. Michener of an amendment which he intends to 
propose, by which only regular graduates of veterinary medicine 
