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of the last meeting of the Association, with the announcement 
that the papers read at the meeting will soon be forwarded to 
us for publication. We thank our co-laborers for so kindly 
remembering the Review, and regret that the crowded con¬ 
dition of our pages precludes the possibility of our giving the 
entire transactions in the same manner as we have done on 
previous occasions. Our friends in Illinois, however, are 
aware that it is only from lack of the opportunity to do so 
that we have failed to print their proceedings in full, and the 
hospitality of our columns is always tendered to their favors. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES, 
REPLY TO DR. AUSTIN PETERS' CRITICISM. 
By Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
— 
At the meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association, held in Washington on September 15th and 16th, 
1891, a meeting from which the writer was unavoidably ab¬ 
sent, Dr. Peters, as Chairman of the Committee on Intelli¬ 
gence and Education, presented a report in which he bitterly 
assailed and criticised the Bureau of Animal Industry, and 
especially the writer, as the Chief of that Bureau. This re¬ 
port has since been published, and has, no doubt, been perused, 
in whole or in part, by the readers of this journal; at any 
rate, it has been spread before the world as being the delib¬ 
erate statements of one of the most important committees of 
our national veterinary organization. The assertions con¬ 
tained in it are of such a nature that they cannot be allowed 
to pass unnoticed, either by the individual whose name and 
reputation are involved, or by the Association before which 
the charges were so publicly made. 
If Dr. Peters’ report is true, then the writer of this com¬ 
munication is an unworthy member of the Association ; if it 
is false, then the Chairman of the Committee on Intelligence 
and Education is guilty of unprovoked, deliberate and ma¬ 
licious slander. In either case, the self-respecting members 
