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me the time lias come when I ought to lay before you the honorable 
position you have given me and make room for one whom you 
might deem better fitted to continue the good work so far done, but 
in so doing I would ask to be allowed a recommendation which past 
experience has shown me to be of the greatest importance. Give 
your editor carte blanche for his management of your interests in 
the paper, and above all, let him make his own choice of his 
assistants. X am positive the Review will gain by it. Let him 
surround himself, not by a few of the same city, by practitioners 
who will see almost through the same light, but on the contrary 
let him pick out his assistants here and there, east and west, north 
and south, at home and abroad, and I guarantee it will not be by 
triple but by ten, fifteen times that you will count the number of 
your subscribers, and by this increased circulation give a larger 
help to public education. 
One word more and I finish. One word in relation to 
essentially veterinary education, to the American Veterinary 
College, in the welfare and success of which I hope all of us are 
interested. You all have watched the efforts of the faculty; you 
all have appreciated the obstacles they have found in their way; 
you all know of the slurs and insults which were thrown at that 
institution, to such an extent that even a few amongst us said they 
felt sorry of the equivocal position of the school. That never 
existed, and there can be no more doubt, no more fear expressed 
towards that school. This, remember, gentlemen, is not a city, a 
State affair, properly speaking; it is our college, if we call 
ourselves the United States Veterinary Medical Association; 
the college, though situated in Yew York, is the American 
Veterinary College, and what may ever happen in the progress 
of veterinary science in America, I believe it will be called to be 
one of the fundamental stones of what may come. It will 
therefore be satisfactory to you to hear that the college has never 
been in better condition, that her alumni are all engaged in good 
and lucrative practice, that her students are coming and coming 
again from all parts of the country, and that her professional 
standing abroad or at home is as high as any old institution 
Woul4 desire to be. 
