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EDITORIAL. 
ceptance was made by quite a number of the members of the 
convention—a minority it is true, but quite numerous nevertheless. 
At the informal meeting held at the American Veterinary 
College, it had been agreed unanimously that one society alone 
should form the Board of Examiners—the Board of Censors of the 
N. Y. State Veterinary Society. A change in the opinion of some 
who voted for this arrangement brought on the result referred to. 
The reasons for which a unanimous vote had granted the power to 
examination to the Board of Censors of the N.Y. State Veterinary 
Society were, that it would show better feeling; that in the eye 
of the Legislature it would simplify the work ; that this society 
was the oldest in the State—the first one organized, and that by 
this action a union or amalgamation of the existing State organi¬ 
zations could be brought about. 
Why these reasons, good on Tuesday, proved bad on Friday, 
cannot well be understood. It is, however, to be greatly re¬ 
gretted. The New York State Veterinary Society in this whole 
transaction had shown herself disposed to make any sacrifice to 
secure harmonious feeling and friendship; she had met in a fair 
and honest manner; she was decided, and is yet decided to go 
with the majority; the bill which has been agreed upon was 
framed by one of her members and had already been discussed 
and accepted by her; there was no good reason to go back on the 
decision of the committee, and the graceful manner in which she 
submitted herself in all the movement ought to have been suffic¬ 
ient to preclude any such expressions as fell from the lips of one 
of the veterinarians at the meeting, who exclaimed that unless the 
Board of Examiners should be voted as it afterwards was, he 
would fight the bill to the bitter end and use all means possible 
to kill it. 
At any rate the frame of the bill is now adopted. Some 
twenty or twenty-five veterinarians of New York, Brooklyn and 
vicinity have said so. Let us hope it will be accepted throughout 
our State. If we succeed it places us upon a standing which we 
could not probably obtain at a later period. The medical pro¬ 
fession has had great difficulties to overcome in obtaining its 
present position before the law, and it has only partly succeeded 
