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EDITORIAL. 
years as captain, and from all the captains one shall be selected 
as chief, as major. This bill was published in the Review, and, 
of course, found also its proper place in the proceedings of the 
forty-eighth meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation. 
To complete the value of the arguments presented in the 
newly drafted bill, it is wisely stated, as, indeed, it is in the 
Semaine Veterinaire here, that a general reorganization imposes 
itself: “ England has reorganized her military veterinary corps 
and given her a technic chief. Russia and Japan have done the 
same, and even in Germany the military veterinary departments 
have been undergoing reorganization, and France is also revising 
her present army laws.” With the results that now every large 
army has a corps of veterinary officers which varies in number 
of members with the size of the army itself. 
According to the report of the Committee on Army Legisla¬ 
tion, this corps of veterinarians numbers 143 officers in the Eng¬ 
lish army, 565 in Germany and 467 in the French. These two 
last figures, however, must be modified. Indeed, in Germany the 
entire veterinary staff, including that of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony 
and Wurtemberg, counts 686 veterinary officers, and when the 
new proposed law now before the French government has passed 
these will count 515 officers. 
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Continuing the perusal of the reading of the good work under¬ 
taken by the Committee on Army Legislation, the hierarchy in 
which the promotion of these various officers takes place, and 
'how before reaching the top of the ladder each army officer has 
to gradually pass from a low rank to a higher—from that of as¬ 
sistant (aide) veterinarian, second lieutenant, to that of first lieu¬ 
tenant, of captain, of major, of lieutenant-colonel, of colonel, or 
principal, and finally of general—all is well presented. 
It resorts from the reading of the consideration of the part 
that treats comparatively of the foreign army veterinary services 
that three countries make a special requirement for the nominat- 
