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EDITORIAL. 
room, was the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons; a fact 
which we stated in our paper, read before the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Associaton. 
At the said meeting many members from different parts of 
the country were present, and not one made any objection or 
found any misstatement when the paper was read and ordered to 
be printed ; not one to find it unjust, unfair or prejudicial ! 
As to the second grievance brought to our door, the organiza¬ 
tion of the United States Veterinary Medical Association : Is Mr. 
Jen-nings, Sr., the father of it? Many of the members present at 
the first meeting of the organization are yet alive, and they can 
correct us if we are in error. 
In our paper we gave credit to the Philadelphians for taking 
the initiative in the movement. By the letters which Mr. Jen¬ 
nings, Jr., publishes, we are shown that his father and Mr. 
Wisdom “ were requested to correspond with members of the 
profession ” on that point. Mr. Wisdom was an elderly gentle¬ 
man, who, we doubt not, was very glad to give his colleague all 
the duties of the secretaryship, and for that reason all the letters 
which are printed in the Veterinarian are directed to the same 
person. 
We believe that the minutes of the meetings of the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association will show who were the 
true starters of that organization, and we believe that the credit 
belongs just as well to any of the veterinarians of Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey and Delaware as it belongs to one man alone, as the 
article of Mr. Jennings, Jr., seems to intimate. 
Our connecting Mr. Jennings’ and McClure’s names in rela¬ 
tion to veterinary works does not mean that the books were writ¬ 
ten by both parties,but merely that they have both published works 
on veterinary medicine. 
OBITUARY. 
After a long illness, Doctor Augustus D. Carman, of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y , died in his 26th year, on the 27th of April. His 
diploma was dated 1879. 
