American Veterinary Review. 
DECEMBER, 1893 . 
EDITORIAL. 
Echoes of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association.— 
Greatly to our regret, and notwithstanding our desire to an¬ 
swer the roll call personally, and to secure a favorable re¬ 
sponse to the urgent appeals we had made to our brethren to 
be present at this particular meeting of the National Associ¬ 
ation, we were prevented by unavoidable events from visiting 
Chicago during the entire period of the meeting. Through 
the kind exertions of one of our assistants, however, we were 
able to give in our last issue a proximatelv complete, though 
concise, report of the transactions of the First International 
Veterinary Congress of America. And we must be allowed 
to review some of the work done, and as well to direct the 
attention of our friends to some of the resolutions passed on 
that occasion. 
Unfortunately, we cannot with much right claim for the 
Congress much of an international character, for with the ex¬ 
ception of a few European participants in the work, foreign 
veterinarians were not present. Through some neglect or 
oversight on the part of some of the committees, measures 
had not been taken to obtain the attendance of European vet¬ 
erinarians, and even those who were attracted to our shores 
by the wonders of the great exhibition were allowed to de¬ 
part without receiving the slightest professional acknowl¬ 
edgement of their presence on American soil. The Commit¬ 
tee on Honorary Membership, however, made an effort to 
