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ganizations in the country. But though the Montreal Veteri¬ 
nary College is gone, it is succeeded by a new faculty at the 
McGill, which, moreover, covers an enlarged held of instruc¬ 
tion, as its title indicates, of a ‘‘faculty of comparative medi¬ 
cine and of veterinary science.” We congratulate Professor 
McEachran upon this change, if it is to result in a benefit to 
the profession, but we cannot part with him as the learned 
principal of the school of which he was the founder, without 
an expression of our profound regret. 
Paquin Vaccine Laboratory. —Those of our readers 
Who have followed and appreciated the course of the Review 
in bringing forward for examination and discussion the vari¬ 
ous subjects of importance and interest to the profession 
which are suggestively involved in the current reports of the 
progress made in the study of comparative medicine and 
pathological physiology, will remember our repeated calls 
upon the profession for the qualified men who should under¬ 
take to discharge the duties which were gradually and still 
are imposing themselves upon the veterinarians throughout 
the country. 
Satisfied as we have been for years of the great value of 
Pasteur’s discoveries, and of the immense benefits which 
might be derived from their proper improvement, and the in¬ 
calculable advantage which the veterinarian and bio-patholo 
gist might confer on the profession through their application 
to the animals entrusted to their care, we have again and 
again pleaded for the introduction of a systematic and gen¬ 
eral practice of preventive inoculation in the treatment of the 
contagious diseases of our animal patients. We have urged 
our brethren to enter upon a course of experiments in that 
direction, and we have imported and offered to furnish our 
colleagues gratuitously with a supply of matter for inocula¬ 
tion, and we have at last earnestly asked of our friends who 
have charge of large experimental laboratories, to work, pre¬ 
pare, test and furnish the profession with the viruses and cul¬ 
tures which are now known , beyond possible and reasonable 
doubt , to protect animals against the dangers of infection and 
contagion. To this day, however, our exertions have re- 
