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EDITORIAL. 
prospect that the subject will at last be brought before Con¬ 
gress during the coming session and some action procured. 
Referring, on a former occasion, to the work which might 
be required, we suggested the establishment of a fund, by 
way of providing the “ sinews of war,” always an element of 
great usefulness, and an indispensable factor in every human 
enterprise. We have offered our humble subscription to¬ 
wards this fund, and in the present number open a list which 
we hope will have a rapid expansion. The amount will be 
placed in the hands of the Committee of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association, unless otherwise directed by 
a majority of the subscribers. Who is the next? 
Subscription List to the Army Veterinarians Fund. 
American Veterinary Review.$25 00 
G. Griffin, D.V.S., Eighth U. S. Cavalry. 25 00 
John Robertson, V.S., Second U. S. Cavalry. 20 00 
To our Subscribers.— We frequently receive letters 
asking for back numbers of the Review, and others again 
complaining of irregular delivery and missing numbers, and 
these missives are too often composed in a style of phraseol¬ 
ogy not always very conducive to our own blandness of tem¬ 
per, and far from creditable to the writers’ taste or good 
manners. The cause in many of these cases is that the per¬ 
sons who write thus have either failed to notify us of their 
desire to continue their subscription, or have ignored the lit¬ 
tle account mailed to their address. No paper can be printed 
and published as a matter of recreation, and for the mere 
pleasure of it. Compositors must be paid for their work, and 
if subscribers do not settle their bills promptly, the only 
remedy is, first to stop mailing the Review to delinquents, 
and last to take the name from the mailing book. We have 
always had receipts enough to enable us to go on, and so 
long as we do not publish the Review, as we do not, as a 
money making enterprise, we are satisfied and we will con¬ 
tinue so. This fact, however, absolves no subscriber from his 
obligation to pay his annual subscription, and many of our 
friends are behind their dues, some for one and two years, 
and some for even a longer period. We take this opportunity 
