SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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open the door to large numbers of graduates from alien col¬ 
leges who can meet the 24 count requirement. Thus we will 
suffer alihe in the number of our graduates, in their quality, in 
the restriction of the field for their practice, and in the advan¬ 
tages that we can offer to the New York stock-owners. By sus- 
taming the New York statute, on the other hand, to the fullest 
extent to which this may be possible, we would open to our col¬ 
leges a new career, higher and better than ever before, and 
secure at the same time a better sanitation of our herds and 
markets. 
Dr. Schwarzkopf has touched on various vital points, in 
terms similar to those that were so strongly urged at our 
Albany meeting, and these should not be lost sight of in adjust¬ 
ing ourselves to the present and future. The two schools should 
unite to form one strong one, and this should sacrifice its inde¬ 
pendence for the prestige and the guarantee of high class ^york 
that will come from its amalgamation with a first class univer¬ 
sity. The “ livery stable type ” of the school, and I would add 
of the matriculant, must be left behind, and we may hope for a 
more extended official recognition, and that better places may 
speedily open for the accomplished graduate. At present much 
of the legitimate work of the veterinarian is in this State left in 
the hancfs of laymen, or of medical men, who make no preten¬ 
sion to a knowledge of comparative pathology, and the only ex¬ 
cuse is the low standard of education of the veterinarian. Let 
us raise that standard to the level of that required of the medi¬ 
cal man, and the attempt to stop round holes with square pegs 
must cease and the sanitation of man and beast will be greatly 
advanced. Respectfully, 
James Law. 
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veterinary medical association of new 
YORK COUNTY. 
In the absence of the President and Vice-President, the 
association was called to order May ^ih by the Secretary, at 
8.45 P. M., at the Academy of Medicine. 
The Secretary asked the members to appoint a Chairman to 
conduct the meeting. 
It was then regularly moved and seconded that Dr. Gill act 
as Chairman ^eni. Carried. Dr. Gill thereupon took the 
chair and proceeded with the regular order of business. 
