EDITORIAL. 
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by the profession at large, and however its provisions may 
fall short of their desires, it will be welcomed as an evidence 
of the solid progress which has been achieved, and the im¬ 
provement of the standing of the veterinary profession in all its 
various branches. If to-day, the rank of the European veteri¬ 
narians extends from that of Second Lieutenant upward to that 
of Lieutenant-Colonel, it must be remembered that it was 
only by slow degrees and after many years of striving, backed 
by the influence of very influential men, that this recognition 
was effected. Even in France, this arrangement dates only 
from 1884, and wag only secured by long years of persistent 
and patient effort. If we succeed this year in Congress, and 
find our army brethren at once assimilated to the rank of 
commissioned officers, with proportionate and corresponding 
pay, a long step will have been taken, and much honor will 
accrue to those whose efforts for the advancement of veterin¬ 
ary science and the elevation of the personel of its practi¬ 
tioners in intelligence and social status has made such a thing 
possible. 
More Room for Quacks in the State of New York. 
—The veterinary profession in the State of New York occu¬ 
pies a position and presents an aspect which must suggest 
peculiar thoughts in the mind of an intelligent and curious 
observer. While it was in her great metropolis that Ameri¬ 
can veterinary science found birth and made a stand; while 
in that great city of New York this science has, we may be 
allowed to say, started and given origin to everything related 
to it which means progress; while the capital of the Empire 
State can boast of more than one institution for veterinary 
education, and lastly, while her’s was the first State Legisla¬ 
ture to enact a partially good law for the regulation of vete¬ 
rinary practice, she seems to be content with what she has 
done, and to have made up her mind to rest satisfied with her 
past efforts and her past glory. Up to a recent time she was 
probably the only State where no veterinary society existed, 
and she seems to have become somnolescent to the good 
which she once obtained by her legislative action, and almost 
willing to surrender her laurels without further fight or 
