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knowledge of self-made men ought to be made evident by proper 
credentials, or by examination before a Board appointed for that 
purpose. The subject interests many of us, and we would be 
pleased to receive and to publish any communications on the sub¬ 
ject which our readers may see fit to send us. 
TERRITORIAL VETERINARIAN IN WYOMING. 
We some time since noticed efforts which had been made in 
the Legislatures of several of the States to establish the position of 
State Veterinarian, and gladly announced the result obtained in 
the State of Illinois, when our friend and co-editor, Dr. Baaren, 
received the appointment for that great State. 
The prevailing contagions lung disease of bovines in the 
eastern States, lias been no doubt, the exciting cause of these 
movements in the west, and i.t was evident that the example of 
Illinois would soon be followed by other breeding and stock 
raising States. To-day we publish a bill which has passed the 
Legislature of Wyoming Territory, by which the position of 
Territorial Veterinarian is created. To Mr. Th. Sturgis is due the 
passage of the act, and to him the veterinary profession is indebted 
for the great step forward, which we hope will be followed by 
similar enactments in other States. 
VENEREAL DISEASES OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
We begin in this issue the publication of a long article, con¬ 
tributed by Dr. C. Ring, of Ohio, on the subject of the etiology 
and philosophy of the venereal diseases of man and the lower 
animals. The subject has already been pretty extensively ex¬ 
hausted, and the majority of pathologists are satisfied that the 
two diseases are widely different from each other. Dr. Ring, 
who is a hard student and a deep investigator, believes in the 
theory that glanders and syphilis are but one disease, more or 
less modified according to the peculiar condition of the various 
individuals in which it develops itself, and he is quite anxious to 
have the subject presented to the veterinarians of America, and to 
