EDITORIAL. 
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veterinarians to the event, and we hope that our American col¬ 
leagues will not remain silent to the call issued by their professional 
brethren on the other side of the Atlantic. The opportunity is a 
grand one, the work which will be done and the subjects to be 
discussed will be of great interest, and the other incidents which 
are intended to supplement the main event, will, we are sure, fully 
repay the cost and trouble of a trip to France. If our brethren 
individually are unable to go, delegates should be commissioned 
at the expense of our organized institutions, and the profession at 
large should also add their endorsement, in order to secure the 
publications which may issue from the Congress by the remittance 
of the small amount indicated in the circular, viz.: $2.00. 
But before the sessions of this French Congress take place 
another will have already been held, which has been called to con¬ 
vene in the month of July of the present year. This has been in¬ 
augurated for the discussion of the subject of human and animal 
tuberculosis. Four principal questions will come before this body, 
1. The danger that attends the use of the meat and milk of tuber¬ 
culous animals, with the proper means of their prevention. 2. 
Human races, species of animals, and organic media considered 
from the point of view of their aptitude to contract tuberculosis. 
3. Methods of introduction and propagation of tuberculosis virus 
in the organism, and prophylactic measures. 4. Initiative diag¬ 
nosis of tuberculosis in man. 
The meeting wtll continue six days, and its proceedings are to 
be published. Every veterinarian can be a member of this Con¬ 
gress, and will be entitled to receive the printed transactions on 
payment of $2.00 to Mr. Masson, 120 Boulevard St. Germain, 
Paris. 
A MONG the novelties of interest to the profession we are 
pleased to notice the opening of a new veterinary school in 
Australia, the “ Melbourne Veterinary College,” a reference to 
which will be found on another page.* Mention is also made of 
the establishment of two new veterinary journals in Italy, one 
the EErcolani, to be published at the school of Modena, and the 
♦Deferred to May issue. 
