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any time that will best suit the convenience of parties 
desirous to unite with us in the cause. Perhaps you had 
better consult with your friends on the subject and inform 
us of their views, either Copeman or myself, and we will 
attend to it in our parts of this union. “ Union” did I say ? 
Yes, that is just what we want. 
I remain, with respect. 
Yours truly, 
Chas. M. Wood. 
Boston; May 14 th, 1863. 
Dr. J ennings. {Four years later.) 
Dear Sir, —Your letter of May 2nd has come to 
hand, and reminds me of a previous one which has been 
accidentally laid aside and forgotten. I am aware of 
the necessity of co-operation of all the veterinary practi¬ 
tioners to give strength and efficiency to their order, but 
permit me to say that I beg to be informed as to what are 
the qualifications required in such as may form the proposed 
convention. There are many persons who have taken up 
the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery who have 
had no proper instructions in those subjects, and are entirely 
ignorant of the principles on which they are founded. They 
have assumed the title and duties of professional men only 
for the name and the living which may be received from it. 
Now, my dear sir, these are such men as I do not desire to 
associate with. I do not say this to depreciate your efforts 
in the cause of veterinary medicine and surgical science, 
but there are such men as I have described, and you know 
there are. At a meeting of our vets, here last evening it 
was voted for several to come. But we must wait your reply 
to this for information. 
I remain, friend Jennings, 
Yours truly, 
Chas. M. Wood. 
Oyster Bay, Long Island ; 
May \2>th, 1863. 
Friend Jennings, —I have just returned from New York. 
I called upon Chas. Stetson, Esq., of Astor House, and 
communicated to him our proposed plans for the National 
Convention to be held on the 9th June. He is a great 
admirer of the profession, and is willing to lend us all 
the assistance that may lay in his power. He offered me 
gratuitously the use of a large parlour, to accommodate 
seventy-live or one hundred gentlemen. 1 now submit his 
kind offer to you. I called upon Dr. Busteed. He thinks 
well of this. To give the thing tone and respectability, we 
