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EDITORIAL. 
GET READY FOR OMAHA. 
An event of more than ordinary import is to occur in Sep¬ 
tember next, the outcome of which will have a great influence 
upon the immediate history of veterinary medicine in the United 
States. At the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association will convene in 
annual session on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of September, and every 
prospect seems bright for the most representative and truly na¬ 
tional gathering of veterinarians that has assembled during the 
thirty-five years of its existence. On the successful outcome of 
this year’s convention from the various standpoints of the 
quality and character of the deliberations, attendance, and gen¬ 
eral influence will be the justification of the effort to overcome 
the tendency toward a sectional organization instead of a na¬ 
tional one, as its name implies. There can be no two opinions 
as to the gratitude which the profession of the union owes to 
the East for its tender nursing of the infant association during 
the trying period of its early years, and we do not believe that 
it will withhold the expression of its obligations. Its maturity 
having been reached, its development being robust and healthy, 
there seems to be no reason why it should not be sent forth to do 
what good it can—the object of its incubation, the cause of its 
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nurturing, and the aim and ambition of its progenitors. In its 
early days there were but few veterinarians in the East and North, 
fewer in the West, and none in the South. The course pursued 
was the only possible one, and no other section can be blamed 
for withholding its cooperation, for there were no number of 
men to take part in its burdens and its glories. But now there 
have sprung up in the East, in the West, in the North and in 
the South a whole phalanx of brilliant and enthusiastic men, 
educated, devoted to the science of veterinary medicine, and who 
need the strong influence of the Association as much as she needs 
them among her list of members. The meeting place should be 
as nearly central as possible—equally accessible to every point 
of the national compass, and a divergence from this principle is 
an injury to the Association. The East, participating so con- 
