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EDITORIAL. 
Germany, which, as we have been told by our worthy correspondent, 
F. S. Billings, at Berlin, has been, through the exertions of the late Prof 
Gerlach, revolutionizing its regulations in veterinary schools, and has 
adopted, recently, a new state of things for the education of veterin¬ 
arians; we are told through the Veterinary Journal , that the Budget of 
the German Minister of Agriculture, allots to veterinary schools and 
works generally, five hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred 
and fifteen marks ; of which, forty-four thousand three hundred and 
ninety-five are devoted to the Berlin School alone. 
And so we see the old veterinary institutions of the old world 
improving their opportunities, each one in their way, for a better educa¬ 
tion of their Veterinarians. 
Canada, we know, does also her share, by the subsidies she allows 
to the Montreal and the Toronto Schools. 
Of course, as long as the United States will remain in the back¬ 
ground, in the cultivation of veterinary medicine ; as long as its gov¬ 
ernment (general or state) will close their eyes to the importance of that 
branch of agriculture—no matter how the people will need, ask and 
look for amelioration and for elevation of the profession, and for the 
necessity of scientifically educated practioners—as long as this state of 
things last, we cannot record for the American veterinary schools, the 
same attempts to progress as we noticed in Europe ; and if veterinary 
education has to be carried through private undertakings, it is to be 
feared that, for some time to come, the profession in this country will 
not make the advance that her immense wealth in domestic animals 
would justify. 
We are pleased, however, to notice the attempt which has been 
made in the American Veterinary College, by the introduction, at this 
session, of a preliminary examination before matriculation ; and the 
results which have been obtained show that, if even more difficult 
tasks were introduced, the school would not suffer. Recognized as it 
is—by the profession of America, by the medical faculties of New York, 
by the sister schools of Europe—the American Veterinary College has 
been anxious to show that she deserves that recognition ; that she was 
fully aware of the necessity of preliminary education (at least) for those 
who were about entering their names as students, and the result obtained, 
is the best proof that the change was one in the right direction. Her 
class, which only counted eighteen students last year, has increased this 
year to a respectable number, and though three of the candidates were 
not admitted, her matriculation book records to-day twenty-two bona 
