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EDITORIAL. 
ATLANTIC CITY, SEPT. 3, 4, 5 AND 6. 
All arrangements, save a few details, are now complete for 
the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association, which convenes in the new Hotel Rudolph 
at Atlantic City on Sept. 3, and unless all signs fail we are to 
have a full and glorious meeting. Details of the preparations 
and programme will be found in the news pages, and we are 
sure there is enough of vital importance to engage the attention 
of every veterinarian in this country. Aside from this vast array 
of material, the recent announcement of Prof. Koch before the 
Tuberculosis Congress of London that there is no relationship 
between the bacilli of human and bovine tu berculosis will en¬ 
gage the attention of those distinguished sanitarians who form 
so large and valuable a part of the association. This disturb¬ 
ing declaration of one high in the ranks of veterinary scientists 
will throw a huge stumbling block in the way of progress along 
the line of preventive medicine, and be taken up and reechoed 
by those who have right along striven to retard the work of 
checking the spread of the “ white plague,” and Dr. Koch’s 
conclusions, if deemed fallacious, should be stamped as such in 
no uncertain manner at this meeting. 
Every item of the programme appeals to you. Be ready for 
Atlantic City the first week in September. 
A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION AND A PRACTICAL 
RESULT. 
A fatal disease of calves in Ireland has for a few years so 
decimated the herds of some counties as to render the losses too 
great for the unfortunate stockmen to bear. The British 
government instituted in April of this year an investigation to 
discover the cause and to suggest a preventive. The eminent 
veterinary scientist, Prof. Nocard, of France, was intrusted with 
this important mission, and how well he has justified the confi¬ 
dence reposed in him will be shown in the report made to the 
Department of Agriculture of England before he returned to 
