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be an excuse for what at first sight would appear to be too extravagant. 
It may be looked on by many as the suggestions of an enthusiastic 
mind, but we cannot help but consider them as excellent to prepare our • 
people to the appreciation of the requirements for the qualifications of 
the Veterinarians of the future. 
MEETING OF THE U. S. V. M. ASSOCIATION. 
The 14th anniversary meeting of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association was held a few days ago, and a concise report of 
the transactions are found in the contents of this number of the Review. 
Taking in consideration the fair attendance of the members present, 
and the good representation of the different States in the country which 
met together on that occasion, and the friendly feelings which prevailed 
through the meeting, and later in the day at the entertainment which 
followed, this 14th anniversary was as much a success as the one which 
was held last year in Philadelphia. But if, by thought we go back to 
that occasion, how much more interesting, and how more satisfactory, in 
a scientific point of view, it will prove to have been. Then the attend¬ 
ance was also quite large, but the meeting, was specially brilliant by the 
number of original subjects, by the scientific papers which were 
read, and for the reading of which nearly two whole days were required. 
In this last meeting, on the contrary, we had nothing. Not a single 
report, not the shortest paper. .Still members were there collected, 
some from a long distance from New York, and had to separate after 
listening to a series of common business which, generally speaking, 
could have been transacted in a few minutes, and that by an Executive 
Committee or the Comitia Minora. 
Now it seems to us that such a state of affairs is to be much regret¬ 
ted, and that something more than general business of a large society 
like the United States Veterinary Medical Association ought to be car¬ 
ried on at a yearly or anniversary meeting. There is, besides the ordin¬ 
ary committees, three special ones formed in the Association from which 
sufficient material for reading purposes ought to be provided—the 
Committee on Diseases whose duties are to investigate, as well as in 
their power, the general condition of health of live stock all over the 
country, and the diseases, with causes, symptoms, pathological lesions, 
etc. ; again we have a Committee on Education whose investigations in 
the improved state of Veterinary education, of recent works and publi¬ 
cations, would give them material for excellent reports; and last, but 
