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and-mouth disease, that terrible scourge which prevails so ex¬ 
tensively of late through Continental Europe, which recently 
has reappeared in England, after being rid of it for several years, 
and which in fact has assumed such character as to call the 
earnest attention of our ever-watchful guardian, Dr. Salmon. 
In its general meeting, the association of Italian cultivators 
voted one thousand francs as the starting point*of a subscrip¬ 
tion, to which are to take part the Government, provinces, com¬ 
munes, and agricultural institutions of Italy, to create a prize of 
one hundred thousand francs to be granted to the one who, in 
Italy or other country, shall discover an absolutely certain 
method to give immunity against aphthous fever in bovines for 
at least a period of two years, without injuring their health. 
As the study of immunization has already called the attention of 
many serious and hard investigators on the continent, some even 
having partly succeeded, it is more than probable that the prize 
will not remain long without being won. A. E. 
A. EIAUTARD. 
We reproduce as a frontispiece to this number a late photo¬ 
graph of Prof. A. Liautard, which was recently presented to us 
as a token of friendship. Since the subject is personally known 
to most American veterinarians, a large number of whom were 
his u boys,” as he always affectionately refers to those who were 
so fortunate as to be his pupils, and as he has been absent from 
America for a number of years, we thought they would appreci¬ 
ate the opportunity to again look upon his pleasant features. 
Although time has whitened his abundant locks, it will be ob¬ 
served that his eye is as bright as of yore, and from the great 
volume of scientific work which he accomplishes—much' of 
which is in the interest of Review readers—his spirit is as 
undaunted, his energy as great, as in the days when he stood at 
the helm of the embryonic profession of America, championing 
its interests and assailing every element which threatened its 
progress. Now that the great cause for which he labored so 
