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tained an amended charter, empowering them to confer a higher 
degree than membership, entitled Fellowship, the initials being 
F.R.C.V.S. 
The unsatisfactory state of affairs in relation to veterinary 
diplomas in Britain for many years has proved a great injury to 
the profession, giving rise to much discord and hard feeling, but is 
happily soon to be terminated by arrangements which are in pro¬ 
gress by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for 
admitting the Society’s certificate-holders as members of the 
Royal College, and terminating the examinations of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society, so that before long hundreds of those 
who at present have only the right to affix Y.S., Edin., may le¬ 
gally, if they desire it, without examination obtain the right to use 
M.R.C.Y.S., and let us hope that L. and E. will no longer be 
added, but all being one united profession, will endeavor to prove 
their college motto, Vis TJnita Fortior. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Sir: —During the last winter session of the American Vet¬ 
erinary College the students entertained the idea of organizing a 
society for their mutual advancement in veterinary science, and 
then appointed a committee to endeavor to give the suggestion a 
practical result. Having obtained the approval of the Faculty, the 
students, at a meeting held on the 18th inst., organized the Medical 
Association of the American Veterinary College, electing as 
officers Prof. A. A. Holcombe, D.Y.S., President; T. B. Rogers, 
Vice-President; A. S. Brigham, Treasurer; and R. A. McLean, 
Secretary. At the meetings, which will be held every Friday 
evening in the lecture room of the College, original papers will 
be read by the senior students. It is hoped that by the discussions 
raised upon these different subjects, by the reports of cases, and 
of the latest innovations in veterinary medicine, that not only will 
our knowledge of our adopted profession be materially increased, 
