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EDITORIAL. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
In 1876, on the occasion of the festivities of the Centennial ? 
the United States Veterinary Medical Association held its anni¬ 
versary meeting in Philadelphia. 
A number of papers were presented and read at the meeting, 
amongst which we had prepared one upon the history and progress 
of Veterinary Medicine in the United States. 
This paper was found by Prof. Steele, F.R.C.V.S, &c., of 
sufficient interest, and, we dare say, of truth, to induce him to use 
it in the writing of an excellent article which was published in 
the Veterinarian in January of this year. 
In the May number of the same journal appears a letter from 
Mr. R. Jennings, Jr. on the same topic, which we present to 
our readers, and in which we are said to have been “ unjust, 
unfair and prejudiced,” and that we have committed “ errors and 
omissions ” when we allowed this paper to be published. 
Had the gentleman read our article he would have seen that 
we stated that “ many points would be found deficient,” and 
also “ that to write such a history a much older resident of America 
would hare been better qualified for the task ”—a sufficient apol- 
ogy, we thought, for what did appear in our review of the sub¬ 
ject. But the gentleman did not read it! We hope he will, 
however, and satisfy himself of the impropriety of the adjectives 
he so freely applies to us. 
Mr. R. Jennings, Jr., says that before the time we came to 
the United States, the “rough road traveled by his (our) prede¬ 
cessors was made comparatively smooth, leaving him (ourselves) 
an easy victory.” 
To this we would answer that we have been nearly twenty 
years engaged in our special work, and that what little success 
we have attained we hesitate to call a victory; we are yet to 
learn who else attempted it before, and struggled through it with¬ 
out giving it up after the weakest attempt. 
