American Veterinary Review, 
JUNE, 1891 . 
EDITORIAL NOTICE. 
Our New Departure. —For the more than fourteen 
years that the publication of the Review has been entrusted 
to our care we have endeavored to realize the importance of 
the duties thus imposed, and have designedly neglected noth¬ 
ing calculated to make it the true representative of the Amer¬ 
ican veterinary profession; and to this end have performed, 
to the best of our ability, the often arduous and not always 
pleasant duties of editor, publisher, proof corrector, mailing 
clerk, financial overseer, etc. Our efforts would probably 
have proved futile, had we not received at the hands of the 
profession, especially during the last two or three years, the 
valuable assistance that our colleagues of North America have 
so kindly given us, and to which the greatest part of the suc¬ 
cess of the Review belongs. Thanks to them, our undertak¬ 
ing has so considerably developed that an entire re-arrange¬ 
ment of our business department became a necessity, and has 
been under consideration for some time. Having at length 
assumed definite shape, we are pleased to make the following 
announcement to our friends, readers and patrons: 
The various positions that we have attempted to fall since 
the appearance of the first number of the Review have been 
divided, and notice is hereby given, that while we have re¬ 
served for ourselves and the corps of our professional assist¬ 
ants the editorship of the Review —and therefore look as be¬ 
fore for all papers, communications and reports of societies 
from our colleagues—all matters relating to publication have 
