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EDITORIAL. 
tastes and talents of all; and the returns in gold and fame are 
as o-reat as in other lines of human endeavor. The list of pro- 
motions in the Bureau of Animal Industry, published m the 
October Review, is an encouragement to those who labor in 
this field. Such positions are worthy the ambition of men of 
the highest order, and there are constantly being opened up 
equally good, if not better, opportunities in the municipal and 
State departments of health and animal husbandry, while pri¬ 
vate practice is becoming more remunerative and honorable 
year by year as the quality of the practitioner and the intelli¬ 
gence of the public become advanced. 
SURGICAL CLINICS AT ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 
It has been definitely demonstrated on every occasion where 
it has been tested that the surgical clinic is a popular section 
of a meeting of a veterinary medical association, whether it be 
national, State, or municipal in character. Although it can 
be truthfully asserted that the American Association has never 
held a successful one from the standpoint of well-carried-out 
arrangements, each one of the three thus far held has empha¬ 
sized the fact that the membership were eager for them ; they 
were on hand early and late, in readiness to witness anything 
that might be presented, and generous in their applause of 
whatever appealed to them as being meritorious. The fact that 
there were few occasions offering them the opportunity for such 
demonstrations is no fault of the conception of clinics, but to 
defective arrangements and disappointments in the failure of 
announced operators to fulfill their engagements. It is to dis¬ 
cuss the errors of past endeavors that the Review has taken up 
this subject at this time, and it expresses the hope that its read¬ 
ers who are familiar with the subject will offer such suggestions 
during the next few months as will insure the correction of 
many of the defects that have heretofore existed, and result in 
the presentation of a better and more satisfactory programme 
at the meeting of 1901. It has been said that the way to 
achieve success is by contemplation of our failures, and it be- 
