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EDITORIAL. 
The liberality with which this fund is going to be subscribed, as 
it seems at least, calls for a sure , certain and proper use of the 
money subscribed; and it is to be hoped that the examination of 
the stock will be committed to the hands of an educated veterin¬ 
arian, thoroughly acquainted with the diseases , and a good diag- 
nostician , whether he be already an official inspector or not. 
As we go to press, however, the following information 
reaches us: 
“ The Kentucky stockmen have failed in their efforts to raise 
a fund to buy and kill cattle exposed to pleuro-pneumonia, only 
$3,000 of the desired $9,000 having been subscribed.”— National 
Live Stock Journal. 
ARMY VETERINARIANS. 
At the meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation a petition was read, which, it was understood, was to be 
presented to the Adjutant-General in Washington, which laid 
before him the peculiar position of the army veterinary surgeon, 
and called his attention to the right they claim of better profes¬ 
sional recognition, and suggested the propriety of organizing a 
special army veterinary department. 
These changes which are asked for by our army colleagues 
have been already insisted upon by us on several occasions, and 
our readers will remember the series of articles which we pub¬ 
lished several years ago on this subject. 
We were asked to present the petition to the association, and 
to ask their assistance. We are now pleased to inform our 
brethren in the army that the subject has received the full sanc¬ 
tion of the meeting, and that a committee will be appointed to 
communicate with the proper authorities upon the subject. 
PHILADELPHIA VETERINARY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL. 
It is with pleasure that we notice the second step of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania towards establishing a veterinary school 
or department. The news comes to us, only through an exchange 
(we regret te say), that the new buildings were opened on the 1st 
