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EDITORIAL. 
narians, with a hope that they may derive the profit that they 
anticipate by a law which grants them comparatively little, 
there is one part of the first section which will be of interest to 
foreign veterinarians, viz., that by which they may be allowed to 
come and practice in France. 
Recognition of a foreign veterinary diploma is not new. 
For a number of years that of the American Veterinary College 
has received that recognition, and with it graduates of New 
York have been able to obtain a diploma from Alfort, but by 
the new law a wider range of privileges are promised, viz., 
exemption of length of time of attendance and even of exami¬ 
nation. In years gone by, and even now, recent graduates of 
human medicine were coming to Europe to improve their 
knowledge, as our American schools are probably not yet as 
thoroughly organized as European institutions, especially on 
the subject of practical opportunities, there is an occasion that 
recent graduates of veterinary medicine may do well to take 
advantage of—it would be for their benefit and that of their 
future success. A. L. 
PROGRESSING BACKWARDS. 
In the avowed work of supplanting the horse for practical 
purposes the automobile is making rapid strides—toward obliv¬ 
ion. One after another come reports from the various cities 
where their advent had been heralded as the death-knell of the 
faithful brute which has drawn the loads and borne the burdens 
of centuries that the syndicates of capitalists who have been 
backing them have grown tired of the monotonous occupation 
of sinking money and have announced the withdrawal of the 
machines from the streets. Only a few months ago a firm in 
Boston discarded twenty-eight and bought fresh horses ; Phila¬ 
delphia has had a like experience ; Chicago has disbanded her 
company and retired more than a hundred after losing $475,000 
in seventeen months ; Kansas City’s maiden venture was un¬ 
done almost before it was begun ; it is an open secret that New 
York continues to operate her horseless cabs through fearful 
