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CORRESPONDENCE. 
sale of degrees) even the surviving and honorable colleges have 
been one and all prevented from achieving the status which the 
nature of the subject dema^tdedy^ 
The Review deserves the highest praise for the stand it took 
in 1877 in holding np to obloqny the prime actors in these ne¬ 
farious transactions. Under similar circnmstances I would con¬ 
fidently look to the Review to once more rise in its indigna¬ 
tion and denonnce the wrong. But why that which is com¬ 
mendable in the Review should be felt keenly when expressed 
by me, it remains for my critics to make plain. 
_James Law. 
“ THE FUTURE OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION.” 
Editors American Vetermary Reviezu : 
In the last issue of the Review appeared an article by Dr. B. 
\/^olgenan on ^^The Future of the Veterinary Profession, 
which is such a pessimistic prophecy that the more weakly in¬ 
clined among ns may well be excused for deserting our ranks 
in wholesale numbers. As I greatly dissent from the views pre¬ 
sented, believing as I do in a better future for the American 
veterinary profession, I shall briefly review the situation from a 
contrarv standpoint. 
No doubt it gives great pleasure to the older members of the 
profession, who have helped to fight the battles of progress dur¬ 
ing the last ten or twenty years, to see growing up a younger 
and perhaps better generation in whose hands they can ulti¬ 
mately lay the destinies of the profession when fate shall call a 
halt to their labors. Thus we appreciate their attempt at inde¬ 
pendent thought in speech and writing. But these recruits will 
not come from the ranks of the doubters or the discontents, or 
from those restrained by self-interest or by self-admiration *, they 
will be those young men who are enthusiastic about their call¬ 
ing, who find satisfaction in their professional work without 
always counting the dollar, who are unselfish enough to consider 
the needs of others in a common cause ; they will be those few 
who can lift their minds above their limited surroundings, and 
• look upon things present and future with hopeful calmness and 
courage. 
Such men will not worry about the bicycle and the horseless 
carriage, new contrivances which have only a limited usefulness. 
We find the bicycle principally in the households of the mid¬ 
dle classes, who could never have afforded a horse or a very 
cheap one. To these people the bicycle is a means of ready and 
