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the Colleges, and what more we need not stop to say. But 
the day of publication looms upon the calendar before our 
eyes, and we had almost said our courage fails us as we 
contemplate the misfortune of our inability to meet the 
readers of the Review nearly, or quite on time as usual. 
With the hope that with their usual indulgence they will 
overlook an apparent neglect on our part, and offering them 
in return the assurance of full and careful attention to the im¬ 
portant subjects which we have already mentioned, at an 
early date, we stand ready to respond with our best acknowl¬ 
edgments to the kind consideration which they stand ready 
to extend, and which we are already prepared to receive. 
Army Veterinary Legislation.— Though embarrassed 
by lack of room and time, there is a subject which we feel 
that we cannot suffer to pass by without mention at this time. 
It is an important subject, and one which interests the Ameri¬ 
can veterinary profession at large, in the person of their bretly 
ren who labor in the national army. It is true that we can¬ 
not at the present time present our views in such a manner as 
we desire to, but upon reading the communication of our 
worthy correspondent, Dr. G. E. Griffin, we feel impelled to 
say that the army veterinarians appear to have found in him 
the man who, if assisted by those who are interested, and by 
the profession at large, will be likely to succeed in obtaining 
for our colleagues in the army such a recognition as is due to 
their calling. The work necessary to be done, however, will 
consist in something more than the presentation of a suitable 
bill. Its passage will not prove to be a matter-of-course rou¬ 
tine affair, but will only be secured by the hardest kind of a 
lobby fight against the objections of supercilious army officers 
and members of the West Point aristocracy and their wives. 
It will require much personal effort, and not a trifling ex¬ 
penditure of time, money, argument, persuasion and influ¬ 
ence. Among other things, a fund of available cash will cer¬ 
tainly be indispensable, to be disbursed under proper control 
and management; and with this object in view we would sug¬ 
gest the immediate opening of a subscription to be placed in 
the hands of the Committee on Army Legislation of the 
