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EDITORIAL. 
desire to assume the entire credit of the success which has 
crowned our efforts. This must be proportionately shared 
by our friends, our subscribers and our contributors, to all of 
whom it is in varying- measure due. And yet, not to be op¬ 
pressively over modest, we would not have the fact ignored 
that it has been personally our hope and endeavor to succeed 
in making the REVIEW the veterinary organ of the country. 
It must not be supposed that we are satisfied with the re¬ 
sult which has been thus far attained, and that we shall be 
content in the future to wear only the laurels we may have 
already won, without reaching after new wreaths. We must 
improve ; we must keep abreast with the progress and pace 
of the profession; we must extend our field ; as American 
veterinary science advances, we too must go forward. We 
have in the past made many sacrifices. Labor, study and ex¬ 
pense have been of no consideration with us, and it is our de¬ 
termination that the future shall not only be as the past, but 
shall aspire to still higher and better performances. We have 
called on our colleagues, and on every private practitioner in 
the country for their co-operation, and we have been liberal 
in our offer to all the veterinary societies in the land, of the 
hospitality of our columns, and not without promising them 
something adequate in return. We have, in fact, done what 
has never before been done in scientific, and specially in vete¬ 
rinary journalism. 
With the present number we make an increase of several 
pages to the dimensions of the Review, nor in assuming the sup¬ 
plementary cost and labor which this will necessitate, do we 
take into consideration the deficiency which is to-day exhib¬ 
ited by our books, of thousands of dollars which subscribers 
and other neglectful “friends” have omitted to contribute to 
our exchequer—where it belongs. With all this we ask no 
more than that each member of the veterinary profes¬ 
sion will remember what we have often said, and repeated in 
our March number, to wit, that the Review ought to be and 
shall be one for all. And now, will not the veterinarians of 
North America in response, match this good motto with the 
transposition of “ all for one,” and thus help the Review to 
