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must be forwarded before the 15th of August to M. Capon, 
Treasurer, 193 rue de TUniversite, Paris. 
5. - 
6. During the Congress the inauguration of Henri Bouley 
will take place at the Alfort School. 
The following questions will be treated: 1. Tuberculosis; 
2. International Sanitary Service ; 3. Indemnities in all cases of 
Slaughtering; 4. Prophylaxy of Contagious Pleuro-Pnenmonia; 
5. Inspection of Meats—questions of far greater interest and 
practical importance to nations and to communities in general 
than nine-tenths of the political and economic subjects which con¬ 
sume the time of the congresses and parliaments of the world at 
large. 
Inoculation and Pleuro-Pneumonia. —A considerable period 
lias elapsed since the prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia amongst 
the cattle of some of the eastern States was made an object of 
official attention, and excited more or less inquiry in popular, as 
well as professional circles. At the present time we believe we 
are wholly dependent for any knowledge which we may possess on 
the subject, upon such reports and movements of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry and its various sections as may be accessible, 
and if there are any interested parties who would like to be in¬ 
formed on the subject, or to inform others, we fear that they would 
become badly embarrassed were they called upon to answer the 
question : “ How is the work of the 1 stampers out 5 progressing ? ” 
So little is known upon the subject of this important work that 
whether any permanent results have been so far certainly secured, 
must remain, we fear, but little more than a mere conundrum, for 
the eastern States at least. About the only facts of which we are 
reasonablv sure relate to the numerous official changes which have 
taken place of late, and, if we are not wrongly informed, which 
are soon to be followed by more. Efficient officers have succeed¬ 
ed each other quite rapidly, with their uncompleted work cut 
short by dismissal or by (perhaps a forced) resignation, only to 
see new appointees put in their places, who may have the same 
prospect to contemplate and so on, until—what! Too proba¬ 
bly the elevation of some unworthy aspirant or favorite who may 
