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cousins found a remedy for that evil in the creation of a sin¬ 
gle veterinary college, the Royal College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons, from which all veterinary practitioners are now obliged 
to graduate, without reference to an English or a Scotch edu¬ 
cation. 
After presenting these points to our audience, we passed 
to the consideration of what we thought was intended in the 
suggestion made at one of the previous meetings by Dr. C. 
P. Lyman, viz., the idea of a consolidation of the profession, 
by a union of all the graduates, and therefore of all the 
schools, and suggested the possibility and hope that a similar 
measure might be adopted in the United States, by the crea¬ 
tion of a National Board of Veterinary Examiners, to be ap¬ 
pointed by the Department of Agriculture in Washington—a 
Board which would be entirely independent of all the schools. 
With this suggestion we closed our remarks, and as a final 
clincher of our sentiment, proposed a toast to the “ founda¬ 
tion of the Veterinary College of America?' 
What possibility or practicability there may be in the sug¬ 
gestions we have thus made, remains to be seen. It is our 
fixed conviction that some plan of this nature will undoubt¬ 
edly become necessary at an early date, and we feel satisfied 
that this will be the best, and possibly the only way by which 
certain desirable, if not necessary changes can be made in the 
curriculum of the various schools. It would be the means 
also of circumventing the possible unprofessional rivalry 
already existing, and which has been manifested by some of 
the respective graduates, the removal of which will greatly 
benefit the profession and prove an important step towards its 
elevation in public consideration. That our life may be spared 
to witness the day of the convening of this Board of Examin¬ 
ers ready to act, is, we hope, not a vain aspiration. 
The second toast of unusual interest, “ The Veterinary 
Medical Press,” was answered by Professor R. S. Huidekoper. 
After recalling the life and death of a few journals which 
have been started in this country, the speaker paid his com¬ 
pliments to the journals now in existence, and enlarged upon 
the obligations imposed by their existence on each and every 
