CORRESPONDENCE. 
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worthy than some graduates, and in the same paragraph speaks 
f drawing the line between the two, and seems to forget there 
re other ways to kill a cat than choking it with melted butter. Is 
b well for us to attempt to draw the line ? Had we not better leave 
fc to the public , as “ by your good works ye shall be known,” (I 
nay be a little out on this quotation; if I am, it is due to lapse 
>f time.) When w T ill an uneducated man feel so small as when 
n the company of educated men. My observations have proved a 
ealization of this fact by many who, if scientifically uneducated, 
,re not fools, and so remain observers, rather than lay themselves 
>pen to ridicule. So much, as regards accepting worthy non- 
graduates as member of any organization. Now as to giving them 
jertificates as to their worth, because they are members, does not 
lecessarily follow in all cases, as is the case with the New York 
State Veterinary Society, who do not issue certificates, so that 
iccepting any one as a member does not give him any qualifica- 
;ion or power to register under the Act lately passed in that State, 
leither does that body accept all that apply even for membership. 
Whether the Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey does, 
[ am not able to say. He says, “ Before the bill was passed a 
^uack was a quack, and a graduate a graduateso they are now 
and always will be, yet the bill says, “No person shall practice 
veterinary medicine and surgery ” * * * “ except he be 
duly registered ,” and since the eleventh of last month, none 
can register but graduates. How many non-graduates will there 
be practising in New York State after ten or twenty years, and 
how many have been shut out because they failed to register 
previous to the date fixed ? I know of four in Brooklyn, where 
the law will not be allowed to die, and it behooves others to look 
after their own interests in their respective counties. I would 
remind Hr. Lowe that the bill does not say that a graduate is 
(i obliged ” to consult with irregular practitioners, and in con¬ 
clusion would say, so far as his opinion, given in the last two lines 
of his letter, goes, I am glad it is not a professional one. 
Yours very truly, 
W. H. Pendry, D.V.S. 
