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aside and forgotten. I am aware of the necessity of co-operation 
of all the veterinary practitioners to give strength and efficiency 
to their order, bnt permit me to say that I beg to be informed as 
to what are the cpialifications required in such as may form the 
proposed convention. There are many persons who have taken 
up the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery who have had 
no proper instruction in these subjects, and are entirely ignorant 
of the principles on which they are founded. They have as¬ 
sumed the title and duties of professional men only for the name 
and living may be received from it. Now, my dear sir, these 
are such men as I do not desire to associate with. I do not say 
this to depreciate your efforts in the cause of veterinary medicine 
and surgical science, but there are such men as I have described, 
and you know there are. At a meeting of our vets, here last ev¬ 
ening it was voted for several to come. But we must wait your 
reply to this for information. 
I remain, friend Jennings, 
Yours truly, 
Chas. M. Wood. 
Oyster Bay, Long Island, May 13th, 1863. 
Friend Jennings,— I have just returned from New York. I 
called upon Chas. Stetson, Esq., of Astor House, and communi¬ 
cated to him our proposed plans for the National Convention to be 
held on the 9th June. He is a great admirer of the profession, 
and is willing to lend us all the assistance that may lay in his 
power. He offered me gratuitously the use of the large parlor, 
to accommodate seventy-five or one hundred gentlemen. I now 
submit his kind offer to you. I called upon Dr. Busteed. He 
thinks well of this. To give the thing tone and respectability, we 
must go to a respectable place, and the Astor House has a wide¬ 
spread reputation as such. Bring all the vets, along ; do not let 
one of them back out. Answer by return mail, and give me your 
views, but do not have the call published until I make the ar¬ 
rangements with Mr. Stetson. 
Yours truly, 
Wm. J, McConn 
