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EDITORIAL. 
who positively agree to be present and carry out their part of 
the programme shall be accepted. Accordingly a committee 
consisting of Drs. Bell (chairman), R. W. Ellis and H. D. Han¬ 
son were appointed, and they are now engaged in furthering the 
objects of the resolution. It is hoped that surgeons who volun¬ 
teer will select procedures which are commonly undertaken, il¬ 
lustrating the safest and simplest methods of performing them, 
and also that they will notify the chairman at once, that a place 
on the programme and suitable material can be secured. 
The New York State Veterinary Medical Society 
set a pace last year that awakened an interest in it from one 
end of the commonwealth to the other. All who attended were 
shaking hands and congratulating each other that they were 
present, and declaring that it was a phenomenal success, and 
that they would not miss another for any ordinary consideration. 
They departed for their homes with a righteous determination 
of working to increase its membership and its usefulness. 
Holding its meeting this year in the same place, with a com¬ 
mittee of arrangements composed of nearly the same men, with 
last year’s experience as a guide, it is fair to assume that the 
meeting of 1901 will justify the prediction that we are to have 
a glorious reunion in September, full of intellectual life and 
activity, with practical work in the clinics which shall make 
every one better for the time and money spent in journeying to 
Ithaca. While every indication points to the fulfillment of this 
view of the event, we must not be over-sanguine, but each mem¬ 
ber should feel that to attain the ideal results here outlined he 
must do his part. The Secretary should receive early notifica¬ 
tion of your contribution to the programme. 
WE have in hand a valuable article from the pen of Dr. 
Charles F. Dawson, of Baltimore, Md., upon the “ Dissemination 
of Infectious Diseases by Insects,” which will be printed in the 
July Review. 
