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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
might could not matriculate in 1897. In other words, the ad¬ 
vancement in requirement was 100 per cent, greater than the 
capacity of the student to learn, so that a student failing in 
1896 must make extra time in high school work in order to 
enter in 1898. 
There is a goodly number of candidates for admission now 
at work preparing to meet the entrance requirements and we 
favor allowing them to go on and complete their preparation. 
The veterinarians in New York outside the metropolis are 
almost to a man of foreign education, the New York schools 
failing to secure their attendance. Now our laws practically 
exclude foreign graduates, and open a new field to the com¬ 
plaining colleges, so that while the sudden advance in require¬ 
ments may work temporary embarrassment, it must in our judg¬ 
ment prove of distinct advantage in the hold upon territory and 
in the inestimable improvement in the class of matriculants, 
whether viewed from an educational, social, or other essential 
standpoint. 
The number of veterinarians in the State will be regulated 
by the demand and the latter by the class of veterinarians here¬ 
after licensed by our State Examining Board. High require¬ 
ments have not caused a dearth of veterinarians in France or 
Germany and can not do it in New York or any other common¬ 
wealth. 
We consequently prefer to stand by the laws, advance the 
standard of veterinary education and practice in New York to a 
degree which will command patronage and applause through¬ 
out the nation. W. L. Williams. 
New York State Veterinary College. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Veterinary Blue Book, 1898. Published by authority of the Veterinary Medical 
Association of New York County. Edited by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, M. D., 
Veterinarian (Alfort), President of the Association. 
A quotation from the introduction to the long-looked-for 
“ Blue Book,” which made its appearance on the first of Febru¬ 
ary, will explain the motives which prompted its production 
and show the objects which it hopes to accomplish : “The 
Veterinary Blue Book is the product of the necessity which cer¬ 
tain veterinarians felt they required to establish’their profession 
upon a more definite basis than had existed a few years ago. 
When legislation undertook the regulation of the practice of 
