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will have an opportunity of testing its value. The kind offer of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry to furnish us with material nec¬ 
essary to accomplish these experiments should not go unnoticed 
or ignored. 
The work of our friend and fellow-member of this Associa¬ 
tion (Dr. S. E. Weber), in his extensive investigations in regard to 
the diseases of rodents, and the light he has shed upon the ques¬ 
tion of tuberculosis and many other important diseases of men 
and these lower animals, affords us thought for consideration, and 
may be the means of ultimately determining the causation and field 
of the development of this important disease, whose history and 
pathology have been wrapped in so much obscurity. It is to be 
hoped that he will continue his original work in this field, and 
that this shall be from time to time brought out for our entertain¬ 
ment and enlightenment. 
The recent investigations and conclusive proofs of the infec¬ 
tious character of tetanus, that so long has defied the skill of the 
entire profession throughout the world, should not go unnoticed 
by the members of this Association. The possibility of giving 
immunity to animals by the introduction of certain remedies, and 
likewise immunity to be given by the transfusion of blood from 
the immuned animals, offers to us a haven of security that prom¬ 
ises much for our advancement and our success in the future work 
in this direction. 
The agitation this coming winter of a bill for the more 
thorough inspection of meat and milk for the cities in this State, 
should not find us unprepared to aid and support it with our 
united strength if it be so drawn that it meets with our approval as 
a law destined to be of great benefit to our people and indirectly 
to our profession. The need of such a law is unquestioned, and 
the only point for us to decide is in the character of a law which 
we may secure, and to avoid the dangers of it becoming semi¬ 
political in character, and by these means robbed of the great 
benefits which it promises to confer upon our people. 
We should not be unmindful of the wonderful work achieved 
by the Bureau of Animal Industry in stamping from our country 
that exotic and frightfully extensive plague known as “ Conta- 
