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EDITORIAL. 
The answer to this query lies largely with the members of our 
profession. If our efforts have proved successful, and the Review 
has become what it is to-day, the true organ of veterinary intelli¬ 
gence and expression of veterinary science in the United States, 
it is not to our unaided exertions that this is due, but rather to 
the help we have received from our confreres , from veterinarians 
throughout the land; and by them mainly is the future of our 
organ to be defined and determined. The element of greatest 
force in the Review consists in the fact that it is designed to be, 
and intends to remain, the organ of the profession ; that its en¬ 
deavor has always been to escape the imputation of lending its 
support to any single institution, whether this or that college, or 
to any specially designated veterinary body or interest. No ex¬ 
isting organization has been denied the hospitality of its pages; 
the veterinarian body of the whole country has been welcome to 
express their views in its columns, and room has been found for 
whatever statement or opinion any of our organizations have 
desired to make public. If, as in some exceptional cases, advantage 
has not been taken of the opportunity we have so freely offered, 
the fault has not been ours; and if the National Veterinary 
Association has failed to communicate with us in the past, we 
hope that in the future a better feeling will be cherished and the 
silence of which we now complain terminated. 
With due respect to our origin, we have always experienced a 
peculiar pleasure in referring to the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association. Conceived and born in the midst of that 
body, we have felt in duty bound to respond to its suggestions 
and to register the work done by so large a body of veterinarians. 
How much we regret that on the present occasion we have so 
little to say of their last semi-annual meeting, which should have 
been held in Boston last month, and that practically no meeting 
was held—or rather no official and legal meeting. A few, very 
few, members from this State (what one might call the “old stand¬ 
bys ”), were present and answered the roll call; some dozen or 
more members from Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and 
Connecticut were also in attendance ; but with all this, nothing 
was or could be accomplished. The meeting had not been legally 
