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EDITORIAL. 
abroad than in this country. The wide-spread prevalence of that 
disease in America amongst our ruminants would be a too serious 
danger to our national wealth. 
Ethical Inquiry. —A question was propounded to us, under 
this title, in our last number, to which, hoping to receive certain 
information from the institution directly interested in the mat¬ 
ter, we failed to make a reply. 
We regret to be compelled to say that we are at the present 
time still unable to satisfy our inquisitor. Whether the Board of 
Examiners of the Ontario Veterinary College have or have not 
created Fellowships, can only be answered by the gentlemen who 
constitute that board. By what authority such degrees as have 
been referred to are conferred, we are uninformed, though we 
conceive that with an organization such as is possessed by that 
institution, as a private and independent establishment, there can 
be no existing authority with power to prevent its conductors 
from determining their own course. And if they see lit to do as 
they have done, what then ? What of it ? As to how many 
persons have received the degree in question, we have no 
knowledge. 
A careful reading of the last announcement and circular of 
the Ontario Veterinary College fails to throw any light on the 
question presented to us by “ Ethics.” 
Honorary Title. —We have received the following in¬ 
quiry :— 
Hear Sir : Will you please state , through the columns of 
the Be view, the meaning of “ Honorary Graduate of a Col¬ 
lege” Respectfully , Subscriber. 
Honorary degrees, as we understand the matter, are titles 
awarded to professors in universities, or to medical or other pro¬ 
fessional magnates, in acknowledgment of or as rewards for 
the service they may have rendered to the cause of science in 
the pursuit of their special labors and the performance of their 
special duties. Colleges , in the true sense of the term—that is, 
as mere educational establishments—seldom, if ever, grant such a 
degree; and when it is bestowed, we believe it is only upon those 
