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ing to veterinary matters, not only in our own country, but 
amongst the practitioners of Europe as well. A perpetual 
yearly register is intended to relieve busy practitioners from 
the annoyance of daily book-keeping. It gives also an Annual 
Record , containing lists of veterinary colleges, societies and 
associations which, not at present complete, will no doubt be 
corrected and perfected in future editions. 
The “Veterinarian’s Call Book” is a successful effort to 
supply a want of the profession, and we hereby tender our 
sincere compliments to the author. 
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MEAT INSPECTION. By Professor Thomas 
Walley, Principal of the Edinburgh Veterinary College. (Young J. 
Pentland, Edinburgh.) 
With this title Professor Walley, one of the best qualified 
authorities on this subject in Great Britain, issues a second 
edition of his book on meat inspection, and it will be accepted 
as one of the most important of recent additions to English 
veterinary literature. In the two hundred pages which com¬ 
pose this excellent work, Professor Walley describes the 
method which should be pursued by the veterinarian in the 
performance of the duties pertaining to this special branch of 
sanitary medicine, and initiates him into the details necessary 
to follow in his investigations of the condition of food meats, 
and the causes and appearances by which it is rendered safe 
or otherwise for human consumption; illustrating his text by 
nearly fifty truthful plates which exhibit the facts in aspects 
most natural and instructive. Professor Walley is widely 
and favorable known to the English reading sanitarian through 
his work on bovine scourges and his numerous published papers 
on the subject of meat inspection, as well as by his participa¬ 
tion in the discussions on sanitary science in the British veter¬ 
inary societies. His standing and reputation, thus acquired, 
are sufficient vouchers of his ability to do justice to this, proba¬ 
bly not yet properly cultivated department of our profession. 
“ The Practical Guide to Meat Inspection ” will, no doubt, 
prove to be a very serviceable book to the English veterinarian 
and for us in America where meat inspection has just received, 
