CORRESPONDENCE. 
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The next order of business being reading of papers, Dr. Samuel Atchison 
read an interesting paper entitled “Professional Training and Ethics,” which 
was generally discussed by the members, after which a vote of thanks was ten¬ 
dered to the essayist. 
It was moved by Dr. Pendry and seconded by Dr. Bowers, that the cost of 
printing reprints of the Proceedings of the Society be held for future consider¬ 
ation. Carried. 
It was moved by Dr. Pendry and seconded by Dr. Bell, that the Secretary 
communicate with the editors of the American Veterinary Review, and Jour¬ 
nal of Comparative Medicine , notifying them that the paper read at this meeting 
of the Society would be withheld from publication, as its composition contained 
matter of a personal nature. 
Bills for type-writing of last month’s paper ($5.00) and fifty reprints of Pro¬ 
ceedings of Society ($6.00) amounting to eleven ($11.00) dollars, were ordered 
paid. 
The Chair appointed as essayist for June meeting Dr. Thos. M. Buckley. 
Meetiug then adjourned. 
D. S. Breslin, D.V.S., Sedy. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
GRADUATES AND NON-GRADUATES. 
Editor A merican Veterinary Review : 
In a recent edition I notice a very exhaustive article, writ¬ 
ten by a non-graduate of Illinois, denouncing the movement 
on the part of the graduates for veterinary legislation. I am 
one of his weaklings, as he so chooses to call us, and can con¬ 
ceive of several ways in which the graduate could be benefit¬ 
ed by legislation on this subject; not that we want to monop¬ 
olize the whole business and get all the benefit ourselves, but 
as a source of much greater benefit resulting to the class of 
men we are working for, viz., the horse owner and stockman. 
I am located in a town of fifteen hundred inhabitants, sur¬ 
rounded by one of the most productive farming and stock- 
raising regions in Iowa, which is populated by a class of peo¬ 
ple that are educated up to the idea that should anything go 
wrong with any of the stock, call a horse doctor, of which 
class this town, as might be said of numerous others, has its 
supply. Farmers and stockmen each have a choice among 
three or four so-called veterinarians, and measure the ability 
of such men by the manner in which they wield the dehorn- 
