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EDITORIAL. 
EDITORIAL 
UNITED STATES VETEK1NARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The twentieth annual meeting of the United States Veterin- 
aiy Medical Association has just been held, and lias proved one 
of the best which the Association has had for several years. Va¬ 
rious important matters of business were transacted, several new 
members were elected, and quite interesting subjects were brought 
forward to fill up the time the members were together. We 
must, however, do, as we have already done in former occasions, 
complain of what we consider a great lack in the proceedings 
of the Association. We refer to the want of proper attendance 
to duties by some of the committees of that honorable body. It 
will be seen, for instance, that of all the committees appointed two 
very important remained silent when the time came for them to 
report. The Committee on Intelligence and Education had no 
report to r make. The Committee on Prizes was absent, or, at 
least, represented by only one member, who had nothing to say. 
We regret much that the former committee had failed to find 
material to write upon, specially in the present condition of the 
profession and in the actual state of veterinary education; and 
certainly our disappointment must have been felt by other mem¬ 
bers, if we can judge by one of the many letters which we have 
received, where one gentleman wrote to us of an important interest 
to the veterinary profession, “ Inquire into the great necessity of 
inquiring into the standing of the schools granting veterinary 
diplomas in America.” That alone ought to have been sufficient 
for a good committee to work upon, and still that of the Associa¬ 
tion had nothing to report. And again, was not the subject of 
veterinary sanitary organization another interesting subject ? 
As to the Committee on Prizes, we were still more disap¬ 
pointed. When the appointment was made of the gentlemen 
who were to form the committee, we heard of a notice which was 
about to be sent, or was sent, to all the members of the Associa¬ 
tion, calling their attention to the prizes and urging them to work 
for them. What has been the result of that good move ? Were 
