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EDITORIAL. 
ought to make it a personal duty to see that delegates are 
appointed from their respective State Associations. No fee is 
asked or expected. The United States Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation is bound by its objects and by its own regulations to admit 
such delegates. Let the State societies know this and there will 
never again be occasion for fear of the meetings falling through 
from want of attendants. 
REPORTS OF MEETINGS OF STATE SOCIETIES. 
When at the recent meeting of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association Dr. Detmers moved that the American 
Veterinary Review be the organ of the Association, Prof. 
Michener objected on the very proper ground that this journal 
had never been the organ of any special organization, but was 
ambitious only of being that of the entire profession, regardless 
of schools, colleges, etc. We have always held this ground, and 
the profession has already shown the appreciation of this fact, as 
can be seen by the number of reports of meetings which we have 
at times published. We take this opportunity to thank the sec¬ 
retaries of the several Associations which have sent us their 
reports, but at the same time will take the liberty of making a 
suggestion to them : that is, to forward us not only reports of the 
transactions of their meetings but also copies of the papers which 
are read. Many of these, no doubt, are interesting and valuable, 
information could be derived by reading them, and the fact that 
a paper may be directed to be printed in a journal which may be 
considered as the organ of the Association, ought not to prevent 
its publication in another, especially when that one is an indepen¬ 
dent journal, not affiliated with or under obligation to support or 
accept without comments the action of any scientific body. We 
hope that in the future the secretaries of State associations will 
see the good they can do to their organization, to their respective 
members, and to the profession at large in allowing the publica¬ 
tion of the papers read at their meetings, and that they will favor 
us with a copy of the same to be printed afterwards in the pages 
of the Review. 
