EDITORIAL. 
411 
Believing that by concerted action only in a matter of snch grave import it 
would be advisable for the appointing power to confer with the National Veter¬ 
inary Medical Associations, and the various State organizations of which it is 
composed, as the best means of accomplishing what is desired, namely, the better 
protection of live stock from contagious diseases. 
Respectfully, 
Dr. R. W. FINLAY, 
President of the New York State Veterinary Medical Association and 
Veterinary Editor Spirit of the Times. 
T. BENT. COTTON, V.S., Ontario, 
Second Vice President Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. 
A. H. BAKER, V.S., Montreal, 
Principal of the Chicago Veterinary College ; Veterinary Editor of 
The American Field and The Chicago Horseman 
LOUIS A. GREINER, Sr., V.S., 
Delegate of the Veterinary State Association from Indiana 1 
(The italics are ours, but we are thankful that the syntax of 
the circular is not.) 
The impression which an uninformed reader would receive 
from the above must necessarily be that so far no “ properly qual¬ 
ified veterinary surgeons” had ever been appointed to official posi¬ 
tions; that the work done by Professors Law, Salmon, Paaren, 
McLean, Lyman, Miller, Gadsden, Michener, Hopkins and many 
other has been out of their province ; that they were'not “ veter¬ 
inarians educated to deal with disease in its various aspects,” and 
especially such diseases as those which they have actually treated ; 
and that the report of Dr. Loring before the cattle convention, 
where he reported that 560 cases had been condemned in the 
States of New York and New Jersey and the District of Colum¬ 
bia, must have been at least exaggerated, inasmuch as only a few 
cases of this disease had ever existed in the United States ! 
This question of pleuro-pneuinonia has already brought the 
veterinary profession of America before that of the whole world 
in rather a ridiculous light, and the effect of new publications 
like this will certainly not improve the condition. We must have 
been laughed at. What next ? 
THE COLUMBIA AND AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGES. 
We promised, in the November number of The Review, to 
present the profession with an answer to the accusation made in a 
communication printed in the Journal of Comparative Medicine. 
