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EDITORIAL. 
can be broadened in no better or more pleasant a manner than 
by the contribution of short, interesting papers dealing with dif¬ 
ferent phases of the subject. As a beginning, we can promise 
Review readers a paper in an early issue on “ Artificial Impreg¬ 
nation ” by no less an authority than Prof. L. L. Lewis, M.S., 
D. V. M., veterinarian and bacteriologist to Oklahoma Agricul¬ 
tural and Mechanical College, Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Stillwater, Oklahoma, whose work in the production of Bulle¬ 
tin 96 on “ The Vitality of Reproductive Cells ” attests his un¬ 
usual ability in that direction, his immense fund of information 
on the subject and the great amount of experimental work which 
he has done, with the object of replacing conjecture with positive 
knowledge, with the idea of demonstrating the possibilities of 
artificial insemination in the breeding of animals, especially in 
horse breeding', which is of vital interest because of the promi¬ 
nent place that that industry occupies in our country. Prof. 
Lewis’ chapters in Bulletin 96, demonstrating by experiments on 
various kinds of animals, the “ Vitality of the Sperm Cells 
Within the Body of the Female,” “ Vitality of the Egg Cell or 
Ovum,” “ Vitality of Semen Under Laboratory Conditions,” 
“ The Effect of Continuous Service on the Number and Vitality 
of Sperm Cells,” “ Size of Reproductive Cells ” and “ Effect of 
Various Conditions, as Eligh Temperature, Sunlight, Chemicals, 
etc., on the Vitality of the Semen,” are extremely interesting and 
instructive, and bespeak the quality and character of the paper 
that our readers may anticipate from his'pen. 
FORECAST OF A. V. M. A. MEETING AT INDIAN¬ 
APOLIS. 
Plans for the big five day meeting are fast assuming form, 
and the arrangement of the programme promises the accomplish¬ 
ment of a vast amount of work during that period of time. Sec¬ 
tion work seems to have become a permanent feature, and this 
year the programme will be divided into three sections ; one on 
