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ness rests entirely upon the dilatory and indifferent members 
of the Association. Perhaps its embodiment in pamphlet 
form might enable future Chairmen in this work the oppor¬ 
tunity of making a complete annual epitome of the contagious 
and infectious diseases. At a future meeting I hope to hear 
a more extended argument of his suggestion to drop the 
word infectious and substitute miasmatic. 
The resolution of Dr. C. P. Lyman for the organization of 
a central legalized body, may prove one of the means of mak¬ 
ing future meetings of our Association the source of all nat¬ 
ional movements and work of the profession, to find its aven¬ 
ues and streams of completion in the delegates from local and 
state organizations of veterinarians and sanitarians, stock 
raisers, growers and owners. In the hands of such an able 
committee, consisting of Drs. Lyman, Huidekoper and Joseph 
L. Robertson, the profession will eagerly wait for the matur¬ 
ity of their plans and suggestions. < 
From the pen of the veteran L. McLean, of Brooklyn, was 
received and approved terse resolutions relative to tubercu¬ 
losis. Its appro'val should be completed by its broadcast dis¬ 
tribution, that the future may well point to our Association 
as the early agitator and detector of its importance and dan¬ 
ger to the whole world of warm-blooded animals. Let it not 
be placed under a bushel. 
The work of research from the pen of Dr. Faust was only 
partially heard, owing to the working day, commencing as it 
was at 8:15 A.M. and ending at 7 P.M.— a half hour later than 
the hour fixed for the banquet, but such of it as was listened 
to gave sufficient promise of its great value that simple justice 
to the labor that produced it should direct its production in 
print at once, as a part of the transactions of the 26th annual 
meeting of the Association. 
All the Difference in the World.— “And you will 
not be mine ?” he asked tenderly as he took her hand. “ No, 
Percy,” she replied, “ I can never marry a horse doctor, but 
the moment you become a veterinary surgeon I am yours.”— 
Judge . 
