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EDITORIAL. 
As it was impossible for us to attend the funeral from this 
remote distance, personally, it gives us a melancholy satisfaction 
to tender in this form an expression of our profound sympathy 
with the sorrow of his bereaved family and near associates; and 
we have no doubt that there are those in this land who will unite 
with ns in such an offering of appreciative condolence. 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
We have before, in our January number, referred to this sub¬ 
ject, and we find occasion again to bring it before the attention 
of our readers. We have published the excellent paper of Dr. 
Finlay, and noticed the action of the society before whom it was 
read, and to-day we print a copy of a bill which has been pre¬ 
pared for presentation at Albany, together with a communication 
from Dr. Pendey on the subject. 
We are informed that already another bill has been intro¬ 
duced in the Legislature, and are pleased to be able at a late hour 
to publish it. 
Which of the bills will receive the support of the New York 
veterinarians it is not easy to say. The practitioners of the city 
of New York are well united in favor of that of the State Society, 
and are bound to defend and promote it by all possible means; 
and their success seems to be so certain that doubts appear out of 
the question as to the result, unless, as said one person very active 
in the movement, “ there is a black sheep amongst us.” 
THE FUTURE OF THE VETERINARIAN. 
We will not venture to say how many letters we have 
received, or in how many colloquies we have engaged, during our 
connection with the subject of veterinary education, in which the 
burden of inquiry has been the remunerative quality of the prac¬ 
tice of the jveterinary profession. “ Does it pay ? ” “ Can a 
veterinarian support his family \ ” etc. 
These are, of course, practical and experimental questions, 
and are quite appropriate at the present time, and indeed, may 
continue to be quite as pertinent for years yet to come. The 
