THE FUTURE OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
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the greatest amount of service each, supported by the best build¬ 
ings and equipments, are, whether viewed from the standpoint 
of increased percentage of students in attendance or of original 
published investigations by their faculties, the most prosperous 
and vigorous, while the shorter the course, the less work done 
by each member of the faculty, the more livery-stable like the 
surroundings, the poorer the showing in attendance in compari¬ 
son with the past. 
Future veterinary education, reflecting the future of our pro¬ 
fession, will be more intensely a part of our university system, 
the graduates possessing high attainments, a general education 
in all parts of veterinary science coming first, the general prac¬ 
titioner immeasurably better prepared in surgery, obstetrics, 
medicine and other essential subjects, and from this well trained 
body can be drawn all specialists of a high order which exi¬ 
gency may demand. 
In great cities, in connection with veterinary colleges, great 
animal hospitals will grow up, equal to those for man, where 
animals may receive equally scientific handling with like 
results, where valuable studies will be made for the welfare of 
domestic animals, for the economic interests of their owners and 
the nation, and where valuable lessons will be learned applicable 
to the diseases of man. These will not be built as commercial 
enterprises, but will be erected by philanthropists or states for 
the benefit of civilization. Their coming is the logical progress 
of events. We cannot say where or when, probably within one 
decade, surely in less than two, it may be here or there, but 
whether such structure rears its columns at McGill or else¬ 
where, of one thing we may even now feel assured, our alma 
mater will have played no mean part in building the foundation. 
Dr. Wm. Herbert Howe, Treasurer of the A. V. M. xV, 
has been added to the list of collaborators of the Review for 
Volume XXIV. As the doctor is never a figure-head in any¬ 
thing with which his name is associated, our readers may expect 
something from his pen from time to time. 
