EDITORIAL. 
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We inclose in the present issue a form of table which we trust 
all who cherish an interest in this very important subject, as well 
as those who ought to do so, whether private practitioners, veter¬ 
inary surgeons possessing a large city and country practice, 
those who are attached to boards of health, State veterinarians 
and others, will regard as a personal appeal, and accept our 
remarks as conveying a professional and fraternal suggestion, 
which they will not fail to acknowledge with a prompt, avail¬ 
able and practical response, such as it will be both a pleasure 
and a duty to return. We are, of course, not unaware that 
official, Governmental veterinarians will, probably, not be per¬ 
mitted to furnish us with what we desire. It is quite too much 
the custom in our land for lofty officials to withhold information 
of a professional nature, or if they consent to impart it, do so in 
a manner peculiar to themselves. But as the tables we propose 
may be filled by any veterinarian, a series of proximately accu¬ 
rate statements of facts may be, nevertheless, secured, which will 
furnish the public with statistics of the greatest value and 
interest. 
The remarks and suggestions of friends and correspondents on 
this subject will be welcomed, and shall receive most respectful 
consideration at our hands. 
REGISTER OF GRADUATES OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
In this day of the unscrupulous assumption of titles and lar¬ 
ceny of learned degrees, when any person so electing and desiring 
to deceive his neighbor may accomplish his purpose by placing 
after his name a row of initials purporting to be abreviations of a 
medical title which he never possessed the right to appropriate, 
it is difficult for the public to determine between two claimants 
with the same title, which is the impostor and which the honest 
man—who is entitled and who is not to the Y.S., V\M. orD.V.S. 
A claimant may perhaps have even matriculated at a veterinary 
college, but without having even attended a full course of lec¬ 
tures ; or he may have been unfortunate (?) in his final examina¬ 
tion. He may thus have been either unwilling or unable to complete 
