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EDITORIAL. 
preparatory education to be successfully launched in this 
country his superiority will be recognized and acknowledged. 
We are getting there fast enough ; no science can point to the 
same amount of advancement in the same length of time. To 
progress too rapidly wonld be false and fictitious, without that 
stability necessary to produce an enduring foundation. 
It behooves us all to follow every avenue, then, that can 
lead to knowledge. With the magnificent programme of the 
forthcoming meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association before you, which will be found elsewhere in this 
issue of the Review, how can you fail to be present? With 
yonr veterinary journals publishing a thousand pages of valu¬ 
able material every year, how can yon withhold your financial 
support and educational cooperation ? If you are contributing 
to the two greatest sources of professional progress—the asso¬ 
ciations and the magazines—you can do even more by seeing to 
it that your veterinary friends do likewise. 
THE NEW YORK STATE V. M. SOCIETY. 
At an exact date not yet determined, but probably during the 
week following the U. S. V. M. A., the Empire State Associa¬ 
tion will convene in New York City. Although the programme 
was not ready for announcement when the Review closed its 
forms, we had a pleasant interview with the energetic Secretary, 
and from him we learned that arrangements were well under 
way for a profitable and pleasant annual meeting. The New 
York City members were insistent in securing the meeting for 
their city, and they should make it certain that nothing is left 
undone to eclipse all former years. 
Dr. Frank H. MielER contributes to the profession, through 
the Review for this month, a valuable article on that bane 
of long-eared dogdom, “ otorrhoea,” orcanker.” His contri¬ 
bution is so important, so scientific, and so practical that we feel 
very fortunate in having secured it for our readers, and refer to 
it with pleasure. 
