EDITORIAL. 
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acted in the same direction, and while both gentlemen were 
acting individually, ignorant of each other’s action, a call was 
made for a meeting to take place at the office of Dr. Huide- 
koper on the 25th of January. 
The meeting took place, and the Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation of New York County was organized. 
Dr. Hanson, who had already notified a number of mem¬ 
bers of the work in which he was engaged, and had received 
from them promises of assistance, secured a room for the 
meeting and selected a date suitable to all; he saw at once 
the possible danger which might result from an attempt to 
form a double organization, and gave up his project, deciding 
to notify his friends to join the ranks of the County Society, 
by attending its first meeting, which is to take place on the 
first Tuesday of February, further notice of which will be 
given. 
We have received the following concise report from the 
Secretary: 
Organization of the “Veterinary Medical Association of 
New York County. 
A meeting of the veterinarians of New York City, pursuant to an invitation 
received from Dr. Tli. Giffen, County Secretary of the New York State Veterin¬ 
ary Medical Society, was called at Dr. Huidekoper’s office on the 25th of Jan¬ 
uary, 1894, to organize the above named Association. 
Among those present were: Drs. Huidekoper, Robertson, Giffen, Ryder, 
Conklin, Gill, Neher, Beckett, Hanson, Buckley, Richards, Loomis, Sherwood, 
Delaney, Farley, Swan, O’Shea, Bieser, Parkerson, Doyle, C. Cattanach, Turner, 
Burchstedt, Amelying, Dickson, J. S. Cattanach, J. J. Cattanach and several 
others. Dr. W. H. Hoskins, President of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association, was also present. 
Dr. Th. Giffen called the meeting to order and stated that the object of the 
meeting was to organize an association upon the following basis: 
I. To hold regular meetings to discuss professional subjects for mutual im¬ 
provement, and to improve the status of the veterinary profession by bringing its 
members into more intimate relationship, and consolidating them as a distinctive 
professional body in the community. 
II. To regulate veterinary affairs and methods in the education and practice 
of veterinary medicine, to be in harmony with the conformity to the regulations 
