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EDITORIAL. 
Prof. A. Liautard: 
Dear Sir :— I have just returned home from an extended trip, and in read¬ 
ing the Review, which had come to hand during my absence, I find a very con¬ 
spicuous notice regarding the extension of the registering law in this State, and 
that the writer takes particular pains to say that the New York State Veterinary 
Medical Society was the principal actor in having this extension granted. Now 
there is positively no truth in that assertion, and as proof of what I say I would 
refer you to the proceedings of the New York State Veterinary Medical Society 
published at different limes in the American Veterinary Review and other 
journals. The New York State Veterinary Medical Society was organized for 
the purpose of calling together the members of the profession in this State who 
were graduates from veterinary colleges or universities, for the better protection 
of themselves and the elevation of the profession in the State by having such 
laws as you mentioned repealed, and a law passed compelling every man who is 
desirous of practicing the profession to be a graduate of a veterinary college or 
university, or pass a State Board of Examiners, or both. This, we believe, 
would in time elevate the standard of the profession in this State far above that 
of any in the Union. This has been our aim from the date of organization, and 
if all the members of the profession in the State would take a personal interest 
in the matter, it could be accomplished. The members of the New York State 
Veterinary Medical Society most earnestly desire that the members of the pro¬ 
fession throughout the country should understand that they had nothing to do 
with the passing of said act. 
Trusting that you will give this article as conspicuous a place in your jour¬ 
nal as the one referred.to occupied, I am 
Yours, etc., 
N. P. Hinckley. 
We have done justice to the doctor’s proper claims, and 
we think that the matter ought to rest there. But we must 
remind him that we are excusable for listening to an “ on 
dit,” especially as the Review has not been favored with any 
report of the doings of the New York State Veterinary Med¬ 
ical Society for more than a year, with the exception of the 
proceedings of the meeting in 1892, and a postal-card notice 
of the meeting in January of the present year. The Review, 
however, always desires to treat everyone impartially. “ Open 
to all ” is its motto. 
Veterinary Legislation in California.— It may take 
time, and years may come and go, but it is bound to become 
materialized, and to accomplish its end long before old Europe 
will have laid out the means to abolish it. We refer to the 
subject of improper practice of veterinary medicine, and the 
legal recognition of veterinary quacks. States will attempt 
