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not least, there is a Committee on Prizes. Is it not a sad thing to find 
that in this last meeting the three chairmen of these different commit¬ 
tees had no report to make. It shows, it appears to us, a lack of ambi¬ 
tion on the part of the members which is to be regretted, and which if 
not overcome will in a short time prove a dangerous condition for the 
future welfare of the Association. A meeting cannot be made interest¬ 
ing and worthy of a long journey unless something besides general busi¬ 
ness is to reward the fatigues of members who come to New York from 
the far East or the remote West, from Boston or from Cincinnati; and 
unless the special efforts of the officers of the Association can wake up 
the spirit of labor amongst the members, we fear the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association will never see again a meeting like the one 
held in 1876, and that, though its members may increase, the good that 
it might do towards the interests of the profession will be of little use. 
REGULAR GRADUATES. 
According to our request made in the last number of the Review, 
we have received from Professor A. Smith, of Toronto, a list of the 
graduates of the Toronto School, and extracted from it for publication 
the names of the gentlemen which are practicing in the United States. 
From the pen of Professor Prentice, of the Illinois University, we 
have received a communication with an official list of the regular mem¬ 
bers of the profession members of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. This list contains only those who have a full claim to the 
title M. R. C. V. S., and, of course, does not mention those gentlemen 
who, holding degrees from Edinburgh or Glasgow only, though regular 
graduates, are V. S. E. or V. S. G., and not M. R. C. V. S. E. or G. as 
many have the habit of calling themselves. There is but one Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, and no one has the right to use its 
name unless he holds the diploma of that scientific body of Great 
Britain. We will try to obtain for our next, a complete list of the gradu¬ 
ates of the other schools of that country, and present it to our readers. 
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNITED VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of this Association took place in 
the lecture room of the American Veterinary College on Tuesday, 
September 18th, 1877. The Comitia Minora met at 11 a. m. and ad¬ 
journed at 12 m., when the regular session of the Association was called 
to order with President Liautard in the chair. O. H. Flagg, New Bed- 
