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approached, and yet the presentation of the plan has already 
been responded to by subscriptions amounting to upwards of 
nineteen thousand dollars. Circulars have been mailed to the 
entire body of alumni, but from many of them answers have 
not yet reached Dr. Coates. There can be but little doubt 
remaining that the entire sum solicited will soon be secured 
from those to whom circulars have been addressed. The 
officers have been accustomed to depend upon the alumni, 
and their past acts have so warranted this confidence that it 
has given them a right still to exercise it. It can scarcely be 
supposed, therefore, that in this last and critical juncture, they 
will remain deaf to the call and jeopardize the chances of suc¬ 
cess, now so fair. A call for outside contributions might be 
an easy and judicious measure, and facilitate the collection of 
the balance of the thirty thousand dollars required, but, would 
not this expedient greatly detract from the credit of the pro¬ 
fession for their past liberality, and seriously wound the esprit 
de corps which ought to be cultivated among the brethren ? 
No, let the honor of the enterprise remain among ourselves, 
and be retained where it belongs, as the rightful due of the 
alumni to constitute a perpetual memorial of their faithful¬ 
ness in “ standing by their Alma Mater.” 
United States Veterinary Medical Association.— 
A few days longer and the annual meeting of the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association will be called to order 
in Chicago. The programme has been carefully prepared, 
papers have been promised which are likely to call for inter¬ 
esting discussions, a large delegation of veterinarians from the 
East is expected to leave New York on the Sunday t pre- 
vious, and, to crown all these efforts with success, our col¬ 
leagues of the West are now using strenuous exertions to 
make this great gathering of veterinarians the most impor¬ 
tant that has ever taken place in this country. This meeting 
will have for result not only a great advance in the profession, 
but will mark in the history of the American veterinary pro¬ 
fession a great date—the union of veterinarians from all parts 
of the land and the consolidation of the United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association. There was in the organization of 
