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refused, and sometimes our appeal lias not been so much as recog¬ 
nized (unless our failure to receive replies is due to our neglecting 
to apply to the dead letter office). 
But all this matters little or nothing now. We have offered 
the prize, and the prize is still offered, and we have a committee, 
and it is the right kind of a committee. And in announcing its 
composition we take sincere pleasure in tendering our truest 
thanks to the gentlemen with whom we shall co-operate in the 
matter in hand. They are gentlemen whose names and standing 
will be sufficient to give value to whatever opinions they may 
unite in expressing. Our appreciation of their kindness in 
accepting our invitation to become judges in the matter is en 
hanced by the difficulties we have encountered, and their col¬ 
leagues at large should honor them for their professional devotion 
and disinterested service. 
Here are their names: Prof. R. Huydekoper, of the Veterin¬ 
ary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, as chairman ; 
Dr. J. C. Myers, Sr., of Cincinnati; Dr. A. A. Holcombe, State 
Veterinarian of Kansas; Dr. L. Howard, of Boston, and Dr. D. 
J. Dixon, of Hoboken, New Jersey. 
We are now prepared to receive the competing papers, and 
once for all beg to repeat the conditions of admission to the con¬ 
test: The papers are to be delivered to the Review before the 
first of April, 1888 ; each paper is to be distinguished by a special 
motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope enclosing the name 
and address of the author, and endorsed externally with the dis¬ 
tinguishing motto for identification. 
The decision of the committee will be made public as soon as 
it shall have reached the editorial rooms of the Review. 
Patho-Biological Laboratory of Nebraska. —In the Review 
for January we published a letter from the Director of the Patho- 
biological Laboratory of Nebraska, in which the facilities of that 
institution were liberally placed at the disposal of such graduated 
physicians and veterinarians as might desire to pursue a course of 
study in that special department of scientific research. Such an 
offer is characteristic of Professor Billings, and is no less than 
we should expect from that source, and we are glad to hear that 
