American Veterinary Review, 
SEPTEMBER, 1893 . 
EDITORIAL. 
Veterinary Legislation. —We suppose that reporters 
and gossips on scientific subjects, meaning, for our present 
purpose, those of the veterinary persuasion, are of much the 
same breed with other common carriers of intelligence and 
rumor in their liability to commit occasional errors, and that 
their “on dits ” ought to be accepted with a proper modicum 
of caution, and, moreover, with the idea that when they are 
subsequently demonstrated they should also be promptly 
acknowledged, with a due apology for their occurrence. We 
find that, not differing from others in the journalistic line, we 
have ourselves become somewhat blameworthy in certain 
matters, and we now tender the apology which becomes in 
order under the rule. 
In our May issue, when speaking of a new bill which had 
been presented to the Legislature in Albany, we stated that 
we “ were told ” (nothing more) that the project in question 
was fathered by the New York State Veterinary Society. 
The bill was a bad one. Its tendency is to prevent the ad¬ 
vancement of veterinary practice in the Excelsior State. Its 
enactment is a disgrace to the body which accomplished it, 
and it is perfectly proper that the State Association should 
defend itself against our animadversions, as well as against 
the bill itself, and this is well done in the following letter, re¬ 
ceived from Dr. N. P. Hinckley, the worthy Secretary of the 
New York State Veterinary Medical Society : 
