EDITORIAL. 
author, and endorsed externally with the distinguishing motto, 
for identification. 
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The prize will bo awarded upon the verdict of a committee of 
five veterinarians, to be selected from the ranks of the profession 
at large throughout the United States. 
The names of the gentlemen composing the committee of 
award will be announced in a future number of the Review. 
For a number of years it has been the custom of the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association to award prizes annually 
to the authors of the best papers upon ordinary topics presented 
before that body; and not long since, the staff of the Review, 
after due consideration, concluded, by way of improving the idea, 
also to offer a prize additional to that of the Association, and 
which should be disposed of under their immediate auspices. 
This suggestion was kindly accepted, and for two years past the 
object intended—viz., that of stimulating study by exciting com¬ 
petition—seemed to be satisfactorily realized. 
Certain unforeseen complications, however, have been recently 
developed, which appear to indicate the propriety of an independ¬ 
ent action in this matter on the part of the Review, and the ar¬ 
rangement recently in existence may therefore be considered, for 
the present, as terminated. 
But in view of the benefits which must accrue from the mere 
process of preparation, and the accompanying efforts of those who 
are to participate in the proposed competition, through the inves¬ 
tigation and study necessarily involved in the work, and to insure 
the advantages which must inure to the interests of veterinary 
literature in the United States by the publication of original dis¬ 
sertations which shall be a credit to American veterinary institu¬ 
tions and practitioners, we to-day announce our purpose to con¬ 
tinue to present the inducements, though under somewhat altered 
conditions, which we had before offered to our friends and col¬ 
leagues, with only the change already indicated. And we are 
confident in our judgment that in making this change we are 
adopting a course which cannot but enhance the value of the ver¬ 
dict which should constitute the chief value of the prize to the 
successful contestauts in the coming years, 
