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importance to us all that it needs no further comment. The Committee of Ar¬ 
rangements are making an effort to have this subject discussed by the most emi¬ 
nent members of the Association. 
The reports of the Committee on Intelligence and Education, the Commit¬ 
tee on Diseases, and special committee on Food Inspection, as also the reports 
from Resident State Secretaries, will be of the most complete character and prom¬ 
ises the most thorough consideration by any body of veterinarians convened in 
America. 
All members of the Association and members of the profession east of Chi¬ 
cago will bear in mind that all railroads in the above territory will grant 
R rate to all those attending. Every member will ask for a certificate at the 
point of departure and will hand this to the Secretary at the meeting, which, 
when countersigned, will entitle him to a one-third rate returning. Tickets will 
be on sale at all points at least three days before the day of opening, and will be 
good for return passage until the 20th. 
The Comitia Minora will meet at 8:80 a.m. at Willard’s Hall, on the morn¬ 
ing of September 15th. The regular session will convene promptly at 10 a.m., 
and it is urged upon all members that they endeavor to be present at the opening. 
All members in attendance will register their names immediately upon en¬ 
tering the hall, and all information desired will be gladly afforded by the local 
committee of arrangements. 
W. Hokaoe Hoskins, Secretary , 
12 South Thirty-seventh St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
American Veterinary Record.— Some time ago we 
received a prospectus of the above named publication, which 
announced it as a semi-monthly journal, to be “ devoted to 
the wants and interests of the busy veterinarian, who desires 
to know the essence of all good things from all good sources.’’ 
We have not as yet seen a copy of this promising contem. 
porary, and would be pleased to look it in the face, for our 
own benefit as well as for that of our readers. 
Notice. —Some friend has sent us a box containing certain 
bottled pathological specimens of which we would like to be 
further informed. One of the bottles contain some parasites 
(worms); another a cerebellum and part of the rachidian bulb ; 
another a piece of liver, and the fourth what seems to be a piece 
of heart. As the box was not accompanied with a letter, and 
was destitute of any mark or label, we are unable properly to 
acknowledge the favor of its transmission, or offer any opinion 
respecting the specimens. The sender will accept our thanks, 
and do us a favor by forwarding some written statements as 
to their origin and nature. 
