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of virus necessary, or must we continue to deprive ourselves 
of the advantages which all over Europe are accessible to the 
profession, and suffer thousands of our cattle to perish in 
proof of our lack of interest in the welfare of our farmers, as 
well as in the progress of our science, to say nothing of our 
neglect of an additional source of income for the practitioner, 
now overlooked and unimproved. 
Army Veterinarians. —It almost seems that this sub¬ 
ject is at last likely to receive the attention to which it is en¬ 
titled at the hands of the profession ; that there is a possibil¬ 
ity that the various agitations and propositions and sugges¬ 
tions of the past are destined to crystallize into some tangible 
and effective form, and that the many reports, bills and com¬ 
mittee discussions having relation to it are to be in some way 
focussed into something effective and satisfactory. We shall 
be greatly rejoiped to see it demonstrated, that the work ex¬ 
pended in the past upon this interesting question is at last to 
end in some tangible and worthy accomplishment. That it 
may truly be so, is sincerely to be hoped. 
The address recently made by ex-President R. S. Huideko- 
per, before the United States Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, contains some very strong and pertinent remarks touch¬ 
ing the duties of that Association relating to this important 
branch of the United States service, and at the suggestion of 
the newly elected President, Professor C. B. Michener, a 
strong committee was appointed, from whose action we may 
expect results of great value and importance. From Brook¬ 
lyn we hear that a committee on the same subject has been 
appointed, we believe, by the Long Island Veterinary Society, 
whose young members are full of professional enthusiasm. 
All this promises well, but promises are not enongh. A gen¬ 
tlemen who has of late become prominent in the movement, 
Dr. Griffin, has, we understand, given up a good and lucra¬ 
tive private practice in order to join the army, where his ac¬ 
quaintance with the service and his already thorough experi¬ 
ence of army veterinarian life may be perfected, and if we 
may judge of what he is able to do by what he has done 
already, we shall soon hear from him. There is also every 
