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EDITORIAL. 
of the three special committees were allowed to pass without 
any amount of consideration. The report on veterinary edu¬ 
cation is now before the profession. All of us are interested, 
all of us have a right to make remarks and to expose our 
criticisms. The Review is open to all, and we hope our 
friends will take advantage of the opportunity offered. The 
radical changes suggested cannot be undertaken without free 
discussion and without uniform decision, and no great good 
would be realized when the committee appointed at the sug¬ 
gestion of Dr. Osgood meets unless they have been made 
thoroughly acquainted with an expression of the opinions of 
all veterinarians in the country, whether they be practitioners 
engaged only in private practice or connected with our veteri¬ 
nary colleges. 
Veterinary Societies. —We cannot help feeling highly 
gratified as to the results that will follow the repeated sug¬ 
gestions of the Review to the important necessity for the 
organization of veterinary societies as a means of elevating 
our profession, in creating among our brethren better feelings 
of sociability and of exchanges of professional views. Often 
have we called the special attention of our colleagues in the 
State to the fact that New York stood, on that subject, be¬ 
hind other States in the Union, and to our remarks no doubt 
the organization known as the New York State Veterinary 
Society owes the first steps taken for the unification of the 
splendid body of veterinarians which now compose it. 
But one society only—even though it be a State one—in 
New York was scarcely sufficient, so calls came often for the 
creation of others, and no doubt the letter of our worthy 
friend, Dr. L. McLean, published in our last issue, must have 
proved the last spark necessary to start the big fire which is 
now raging in the Empire City. 
Dr. Hanson thought he would start the ball, and to that 
effect laid his first plans to organize a veterinary society in the 
cities of New York and Brooklyn. On his side Dr. Giffen, 
as Secretary of the State Society for the County of New York, 
