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officers , * * will be asked to contribute their quota of observation 
to the common fund.” —(A 7 . Y. Med. Journal.) 
It is true that veterinarians by name do not appear in these 
sentences, but if we are not “specialists,” and if we are not amongst 
those who are accustomed to view and to study disease “ from 
every side,” liow shall we be described ? 
We fully believe that Dr. Jacobi in this address has had but 
one object in view, and this is to fill the ranks of the institution 
over which he presides with the material which will supply the 
need which is peculiar to similar institutions in this country. For 
while in every similar institution in Europe, as in this country, 
the various branches of medicine are represented by “ sections,” 
such as those of pathology, therapeutics, obstetrics, surgery, etc.) 
always ready for the reference of subjects cognate and pertinent, 
we have to regret the lack of that section which is considered to 
be so important in Europe; a section which from time to time 
has presented many valuable documents, full of important facts and 
discoveries, and which includes men of the highest culture and 
standing in their specialty—we mean the specialty of veterinary 
medicine. 
This section does not now exist in the New York Academy of 
•Medicine, but we have a conviction that Dr. Jacobi designs to 
take active steps for its formation, which after all cannot be so 
difficult of accomplishment. We cannot anticipate that every 
veterinarian will become a member of the Academy, and we 
seriously doubt whether they would all prove to be fit persons 
for such an association. But we do believe that we have in this 
State a few who would by no means be out of place among the 
members of the Academy, and that in their respective callings 
they might contribute largely to the good work accomplished by 
this great medical body. 
VETERINARIANS AND THE CONVENTION OF CATTLE GROWERS 
OF THE UNITED STATES. 
The report presented through the Committee on Diseases to 
the United States Veterinary Medical Association was, like the 
others, simply “ ordered to be published,” and whether it was 
