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can sanction by his silence, of whatsoever school he may be a 
graduate. 
Tiie “ famous Veterinary, Hiram A. Kennedy, Surgeon and 
Practioner,” is an impostor, and we shall feel it to be our duty to 
say publicly as much of any other man who sees fit to assume a 
title to which he has no claim. 
The Army Veterinarians. —The failure of the last meeting 
of the United States Veterinary Medical Association is a circum¬ 
stance to be truly regretted, especially in view of the loss of the 
valuable papers prepared for it, that failed to see the light. 
Amongst those which remained on the table of the Secretary 
was one on the “ Necessity of an Organized and Elevated Veter¬ 
inary Medical Corps in the United States Army,” by O. Schwartz- 
kopff, D.V.M., Junior Veterinary Surgeon, 8th U. S. Cavalry. 
The paper is too voluminous for publication entire, and we 
can give it but a brief reference. A few remarks upon the gen¬ 
eral condition of the veterinary department in the army of the 
United States is followed by a long examination of the same de¬ 
partment in the armies of the various countries of Europe. Those 
of England, France, Germany, Italy and .Russia are successively 
brought into comparison, and the opinions of many commanding 
officers of the American Army are quoted as suggestive of the 
necessity of reform in ours. The paper concludes with sugges¬ 
tions as to the proper organization of this, thus far, neglected de¬ 
partment of our own army. 
The subject of veterinary army reform has always found hos¬ 
pitality in our pages, whatever suggestions our correspondents 
may have had to offer having been always laid before our readers. 
The project of Dr. Schwarzkopff commends itself to us, there¬ 
fore, through our general sympathy with the subject, and for this 
reason alone, if for no other, we would give it place. But aside 
from this, the fact of his being an old army veterinarian abroad, 
and of having also been engaged in the American service for 
some length of time, should give additional weight to his sugges¬ 
tions, as being the fruit of much and varied experience. They 
should therefore commend themselves to the serious consideration 
