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EDITORIAL. 
association makes year by year by the size of the publication of 
its proceedings, there can be no doubt that the A. V. M. A. has 
made great advance, even if the comparison is made only in the 
last four years. In 1908 and 1909 the proceedings covered be¬ 
tween 400 and 450 pages, in 1910 they required 515, but for re¬ 
capitulating the work done in 1911 it was necessary to gather 
them under no less than over 700 pages—716, to be exact. 
Dr. Richard P. Lyman, as chairman of the Publication Com¬ 
mittee and as editor of the proceedings of the forty-eighth an¬ 
nual convention, you deserve the thanks of the American Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association for your work, which must, no doubt, 
have been immense, and if some erratas have been committed 
in the binding of the book, unfortunately marring the perfect ar¬ 
rangement, everyone knows that it is no fault nor neglect of 
yours. 
The pictures of the staff of the association for 1911 open the 
doors of this book, and then the list of contents. Of course, the 
same as usual, the address of welcome, the reports of officers and 
committees, among which special attention ought to be given to 
that of the Committee on Intelligence and Education, with papers 
from Dr. C. H. Stange, of Ames; of L. A. Merilat, of Chicago, 
and Director V. A. Moore, of Cornell. The reports of the resi¬ 
dent secretaries seemed to be of lesser importance than those of 
preceding meetings, although 23 States were heard from. The 
reports of the Committee on Diseases, with Dr. B. F. Kaupp as 
chairman, presented valuable and interesting papers from Dr. 
J. R. Mohler on “ Dourine,” Dr. W. H. Dalrymple on “ Foot-evil 
in Horses and Mules and Sore Mouth in Dogs,” Dr. A. T. Kin- 
ley on “ Biologic Products Used in Veterinary Medicine,” and 
Dr. C. H. Higgins on “ The Laboratory and the Practitioner.” 
The report of the International Commission for the Study and 
Methods of Control of Bovine Tuberculosis, those of the Com¬ 
mittees on Publication, on Army Legislation, on Necrology, of 
the Special Committee on Insular Possessions and of the Com¬ 
mittee on Association of Faculties closed this enormous quantity 
of work done by the various committees. 
