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montliSj and it invites members to use its pag'es as freely as they 
may wish for a similar purpose. There can be no healthier 
sign of the position which this association holds in the hearts 
of the great army of veterinarians than the interest taken in the 
intellectual programme, as night sessions were in order and re¬ 
cesses were unknown. More business was disposed of than ever 
before, not a member being present with a paper to be read who 
did not have the opportunity. 
THE NEW YORK STATE MEETING. 
Certainly no veterinary medical association in America_ 
save the National—has any better opportunity to become a great 
power for the good of the profession than has the Empire State 
Society. We print in our news columns a list of the members 
who attended the very successful meeting held last month in the 
of Syracuse, and the addresses given show that they came 
from a great many sections of that great Commonwealth, which 
seems dCvStined to become—as the mother of veterinary medi¬ 
cine in this country—the leader in all that is best for the wel¬ 
fare and advancement of veterinarians. The deliberations of 
this meeting were of a higher order than in any of its former 
ones, and in matters legislative the members appeared to realize 
that their expressions would carry dignity and weight, and hence 
they were guardedly approached, discussed and acted upon. 
The recommendations of the Eegislative Committee’s report did 
not appear to all those present to be the best that the association 
could evolve, for the good of the greatest number, and, hence, 
the most important proposition was laid upon the table for one 
year, when ideas may more thoroughly mature and it may be 
discussed more intelligently in the light of transpiring events. 
The creation of a State Veterinary Department, under whatever 
name the framers of the law may choose to call it, is an event 
cf the profoundest importance to the whole profession of the 
State, and should be secured only when the representatives of 
that body are thoroughly united on the character of that ser¬ 
vice, and until they are all propositions should lie on the table. 
