American Veterinary Review, 
NOVEMBER, 1893 . 
EDITORIAL 
First International Veterinary Congress of Amer¬ 
ica (Thirtieth Annual Meeting United States Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Association).— The Thirtieth Annual Meet¬ 
ing of the United States Veterinary Medical Association and 
First International Congress has now become a matter of 
record, and it is an opportune time to carefully weigh what 
it has accomplished, the scope of its work, and what we may 
possibly consider will be its effect upon the veterinary pro¬ 
fession of the future, and how well it has discharged the 
grave responsibilities resting upon it in directing the affairs 
of the veterinary profession from a national standpoint. 
With an average attendance at each session, numbering 
seven sessions in all, of 125, with a total of about 200 repre¬ 
sentatives of the profession in attendance during the Con¬ 
gress, it may well be said that it was a success from a national 
standpoint if not from an international one. The lateness of 
the time of holding the Congress militated very much against 
its success in point of foreign representation, though many 
were the kind letters, contributing memberships, and much 
interest taken in its success by those debarred from being 
with us. 
It proved an opportune time for the Association to recog¬ 
nize under honorary membership a number of foreign veteri¬ 
narians, to whom the veterinary profession of America were 
