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EDITORIAL. 
adoption. Just here is the opportunity for local associations to 
exert one of their functions for the benefit and the purity of 
their profession ; and in the populous Empire State the whole 
territory might be covered by such organizations. For in¬ 
stance, the metropolitan district would be in charge of the Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association of New York County ; the adjoining 
districts up the river would fall to the jurisdiction of the West¬ 
chester County Society ; further up the State the Genesee 
Valley Association would look after transgressors, while local 
organizations might be formed in thickly populated districts 
with the same object in view. These associations, operating in 
harmony with the State Society, could police the entire com¬ 
monwealth, so that in a very short time such a circumstance as 
a man attempting to practice without a legal right to do so 
would be extremely rare. 
At the approaching meeting of the State Society at Ithaca 
this question will be brought forward for discussion, and it is 
hoped that those gentlemen who have written to the Review 
complaining of such instances will be present to assist in the 
formulation of a plan to eliminate such occurrences by prosecut¬ 
ing the offenders. 
Dr. M. H. Reynolds, State Veterinarian of Minnesota, has 
received the appointment of dean of the Iowa Agricultural 
College at Ames. He graduated from this college in 1889, and 
engaged for a few years in private practice, but finding research 
and investigation more to his tastes soon drifted into State 
medicine, and accepted appointment in Minnesota, where he 
has labored ever since—so assiduously, so intelligently, and 
with such dignity and success that he has attracted the atten¬ 
tion of the whole country and has brought the control of ani¬ 
mal diseases in his State up to a point where the example 
serves as a model to other States. The Iowa profession are re¬ 
joicing that their distinguished brother is to be returned to 
them, feeling that under his leadership their interests and 
standing are to be advanced through his intelligent counsel and 
