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EDITORIAL. 
us rather difficult. However, the Prize Committee has laid 
down the conditions of the awarding of the prizes—of course 
their preparations are not final; but what is, are the prizes 
offered by the Association, with the various additions made 
by the two periodicals of veterinary medicine published in 
New York. 
Is IT, OR IS IT NOT?— That good veteran pioneer of vet¬ 
erinary practice in the United States, Dr. John W. Gadsden, 
is well known by every practitioner in this country. After 
several years of lucrative practice, which has permitted him 
to accumulate sufficient wealth to retire from active work, he 
has found nothing better to employ his time than taking ad¬ 
vantage of every opportunity to investigate the presence of 
pleuro-pneumonia, and is always ready to spend his time and 
his money to more fully add to his already extensive acquaint¬ 
ance with everything connected with that scourge of bovines 
on this side of the Atlantic. 
At the last banquet of the Alumni Association of the 
American Veterinary College, Dr. Gadsden discussed at 
length the subject of the presence of pleuro-pneumonia 
among American cattle exported to England, and' asked if 
the auestion as to whether the disease detected in the Amer- 
X 
ican steers was or was not pleuro-pneumonia could not be 
settled. 
The answers, “It is ,” of some, and “It is not," of others, 
Dr. Gadsden considers a disgrace to the profession, and very 
properly suggested the propriety of having the question 
settled by an international committee of pathologists and vet¬ 
erinarians. It certainly seems very strange that this question 
has not been solved, and that there should be such difference 
of opinion as expressed by such authorities, English and 
American, on pleuro-pneumonic lesions as there is to-day. 
A letter from Dr. Wray, who has been in England for sev¬ 
eral years as the representative of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture (Bureau of Animal Industry), which he wrote a while 
ago, and which was presented at the meeting of the Alumni 
Association of his Alma Mater (the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege), throws some light on the question, and presents some 
