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EDITORIAL. 
their support and encouragement, in whatsoever form it may have 
reached us. 
If the Review lias not by this time become established as one 
of the necessities of the profession, it has not been through any lack 
of effort on our part, and if we fail to improve its character and 
enlarge its usefulness in the new volumes yet to be issued, it will 
not be because our aim lias become lower and our resources di¬ 
minished. If, as some one writes, “ Veterinarians cannot do 
without it; if when one number has miscarried, inquiries are at 
once made why it has not come ; if our list of subscribers is in¬ 
creasing,” if, in short, all that the editor hears from correspond¬ 
ents and friends in relation to the Review is not greatly exagger¬ 
ated, the editor may be pardoned if for once he has been over 
tempted, and his usual conspicuous modesty has succumbed to a 
sense of excusalbe pride in securing its present status for the Re¬ 
view, upon its accomplishment of its entrance into its teens. 
And meanwhile, we must not allow ourselves to forget that 
there are higher considerations and a more influential motive, aside 
from those which are merely personal, which should not be ig¬ 
nored, in the indulgence of a laudable ambition to contribute to 
the welfare of the veterinary profession at large by studying and 
laboring for the great interests and the enhancement of the grow¬ 
ing influence of this important member of the great family of 
the sciences at large. 
United States Veterinary Medical Association.— Proud¬ 
ly remembering this honorable body as its legitimate progenitor, 
the Review has been accustomed, at least once in six months, to 
make a formal tender of its respectful service and -filial duty to 
“ the author of its existence.” This observance has usually been 
so timed as to correspond with the semi-annual meetings of the 
Association, and has also coincided with the commencement of a 
new volume of the Review. We have no intention of intermit¬ 
ting this custom, having been a to the manner born,” and we 
again hereby renew our obeisance, wishing, moreover, for many 
future opportunities for its repetition. 
These occasions have, by a highly judicious arrangement, regu¬ 
larly “ flitted,” from year to year, in respect to the matter of 
