EDITORIAL. 
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Enzootic Bacterian Hemoglobinuria.— In the June number 
of the present volume of the Review, Dr. P. Paquin presented 
a paper in competition for the Review prize entitled u Studies of 
a cattle disease hitherto ill understood,” known by the common 
name of Mad Itch, and for which term the author proposed to 
substitute that of u Enzootic Meningitis.” 
In our number for February we published a paper, read at 
the September meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association, in which our esteemed friend, Dr. J. C. Meyer, Sr., 
also used the name selected by “ A Westerner,” and this fitly sup¬ 
plemented the competitive paper of our prize candidate. 
Subsequently we encounted amongst our exchanges the report 
of a paper presented to the Academie des Sciences , of Paris, upon 
a disease which not only bears some relation to that which has 
been treated by our American correspondents, but may be, in 
fact, identical with it. 
Whether enzootic bacterian hemoglobinuria is the mad itch 
of our continent, we are unable to say, but as there is no danger 
of excessive information on the subject, we have thought the re¬ 
production of the article in question might be of some advantage 
to our readers. If the microscopic lesions of the two affections 
should prove them to be the same, we shall be pleased to know 
the fact, and much gratified to have contributed our mite to the 
elucidation of the subject by calling the attention of our pathol¬ 
ogists to the European discovery. 
Meetings of Societies. —We have been honored on several 
occasions by invitations from the various Veterinary Societies, 
which are becoming more and more numerous in the different 
States, with invitation and solicitations to be present at their 
meetings, and it has been with deep regret that in the majority 
of cases we have been compelled to accompany our acknowledg¬ 
ments of the receipts of these kind invitations with the expres¬ 
sion of our inability to avail ourselves of the opportunities thus 
presented, of becoming personally acquainted with many of our 
professional brethren. We speak truly when we say that our re¬ 
gret has been deep on these disappointing occasions, for in many 
instances we have not only missed the social enjoyment attending 
