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named gentlemen are all American veterinarians, and experts 
in the inspection of pleuro-pneumonic and tuberculous cattle, 
and they will be sure to do their work well. 
We should all feel gratified, as veterinarians, by these ap¬ 
pointments, which may well be regarded in the light of another 
honorable recognition of the claims of veterinary science by 
the authorities of the general government. It furnishes 
another among many illustrations of the progress which it is 
making, surely, and not slowly, either, in compelling the pub¬ 
lic acceptance of the value and importance of the functions 
and adaptations of its specialties, and its place and uses among 
related branches of knowledge and of public economy, and 
tends strongly to indicate the right place and the proper 
function of the veterinarian in scientific society and the world. 
Dr. E. Salmon, the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try will accompany the party in order to see that the work is 
properly inaugurated. Let this new commission in leaving 
our shores, be assured of our best wishes and of our hearty 
hopes for the success of their new and important labors. 
The September Meeting of the United States Vete¬ 
rinary Medical Association. —In our last issue, in connec¬ 
tion with the expression of some of our apprehensions relating 
to the next meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association, we published an open letter from one of our 
Western friends, in the hope that if any answer was to be 
made we should be able to present it to our readers in our 
August number. Though an answer has been prepared, we 
regret that if it has been sent to us, its publication cannot 
take place before the September issue. We waited for it as 
long as we could, and even longer than we ought, and can 
wait no longer if we wish our publication to be issued at the 
proper date. 
Armand Charles Goubaux. —We have received as we 
go to press the sad news of the death of Honorary Director 
Armand Goubaux, the last of our teachers when we were a 
student in Alfort. We make a simple mention of this sad 
event iu this issue, and will pay it more dutiful respects later 
