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EDITORIAL. 
fessional honor, the conspicuity and distingue of which would 
be sufficient to attract the ambition of the most earnest and 
brightest of our members. 
For the present, however, our efforts must be directed toward 
the implanting of a firm foundation, one which shall be capable 
of carrying safely the edifice which is to be erected upon it as 
the development of the profession gradually unfolds. We must 
have before us constantly the plans and specifications of this 
mansion, so that all that is done in the preliminary work may 
be in harmony with the grand consummation that will surely 
come. To this end, we must secure uniform laws in the various 
States, thus enabling reciprocity to exist between the examining 
boards, so that when a veterinarian has passed an examination 
before one board it will be a passport into every other State in 
the Union having a similar board, by recognition of one board 
by the other. This can certainly be accomplished if pursued in 
a spirit of earnest and intelligent endeavor, and when all States 
have secured laws and*boards of examiners a convention of rep¬ 
resentatives from them may discuss the question of amalgama¬ 
tion for the purpose of forming a National licensing body, who 
shall give a uniform examination and a uniform degree. 
We have arrived at that period in our progress when this 
question becomes an issue, germane, pertinent, and absolutely 
imperative. 
The Review has Attained. Its Majority. —Twenty- 
one years ago the Review began publication, and has continued 
without interruption to make its monthly visits to its readers 
ever since. We have no intention of reviewing its work during 
this long period, because it would be almost requisite to write a 
history of American veterinary medicine, for no event of impor¬ 
tance in connection therewith has transpired during that time 
in which it was not an active factor if not the leader. It 
has grown from extremely moderate proportions to a very credit¬ 
able magazine; and, if we are to believe the many assurances 
we receive from its readers, it is an honor to the profession of 
