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EDITORIAL 
and offered their objection to the formation of a second Asso¬ 
ciation so long as one was already in existence. The society and 
its labors were entirely ignored, the objection being voted down 
by packing the meeting with gentlemen who were not members 
of the profession and who, on that account, could not be admitted 
afterwards as members of the Association, and still they claim to 
have been organized. 
From this are w'e to infer that the other Associations of "Wis¬ 
consin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, etc., were formed in the 
same manner ?—if they were not, it must be due only to the 
respect that the veterinary practitioners of these States must have 
had for the welfare and future elevation of their profession. 
And still these State Associations, which we understand have 
thus been organized at the suggestion of the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Journal , are requested to send delegates to form a 
United States Veterinary Medical Association. 
Over twenty-one years ago, a national institution was formed. 
Since its organization it has had annual and semi-annual meetings 
regularly, notwithstanding that its large number of members are 
scattered almost all over the Union, and its roll-call is answered 
by veterinary surgeons from the States of New York, Maryland 
Alabama, Connecticut, New Jersey, Missouri, Pennsylvania, 
Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kansas, Maine, 
South Carolina, Iowa, California, New Hampshire, the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, Wyoming and Dakota Territories—all being 
graduates from the English, German, French, Canadian and 
American schools—and its existence was recognized at the 
Fourth International Veterinary Congress. She, in fact, repre¬ 
sents a national nucleus which must become the center of 
a large American Association, and her age is evidence of her 
right to a name justly earned by years of honest labors in behalf 
of the profession. 
And still with all these facts and past history, the officers of 
the United States Veterinary Journal, at the suggestion of which 
the State Associations was formed, request them to send dele¬ 
gates to form a National Veterinary Medical Association. 
It seems to us that the time has indeed come for the veterin- 
