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patience, traveling misfortunes must be added to the list, our 
worthy Secretary having missed his “ impedimenta,” to wit, his bag 
and baggage, containing a large number of Association docu¬ 
ments, which, however, turned up at last in ISTew York instead of 
Philadelphia, their proper destination, and then appearing in a 
most dilapidated condition, the valise having been broken open and 
the papers more or less roughly handled or mixed confusedly 
together. But notwithstanding all, some record of the meeting 
must needs be forthcoming, though under the circumstances it 
could be little more than the simplest notice. But the meeting- 
had been of too interesting and important a character to be thus 
cavalierly treated, and as the time had long passed after our regu¬ 
lar day to go to press, the alternative presented itself of missing 
the date of our regular publication, or of neglecting our obliga¬ 
tions to the friends and supporters of the Beview. We have, 
therefore, decided to do that which we thought would fulfill all 
our obligations. Our October number appeared upon the regular 
day of publication—and by the way, it was a good number—and 
to-day we offer to our friends, to our veterinary confreres , and to 
our colleagues in the Association, this extra number of the Ameri¬ 
can Yeterinary Beview, with as thorough and complete a compte 
rendu of the meeting as our position has enabled us to obtain. 
If our subscribers have waited a few days for this, they have nev¬ 
ertheless not lost their regular monthly visitor. We trust that 
our apology for the tardiness of the appearance of the report will 
be satisfactory to our friends. 
