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EDITORIAL. 
the figures paid in by the stockholders. This, we believe, is 
the last of the companies organized for public transportation, 
and its demise is without any other direct cause than ineffici¬ 
ency of the machine—which includes the features of expense, 
unreliability, and a failure of the public to patronize them. As 
a fad among the American “ nobility,” and as an advertisement 
for enterprising merchants, etc., they are still being used; but 
as a formidable rival of the horse as a means of transportation 
for business or pleasure, the probability grows less as familiar¬ 
ity with them increases. 
They do things handsomely in Philadelphia, and surely the 
hard-working veterinarian has something to live for in the Key¬ 
stone State. Our esteemed contemporary, the Journal of Com¬ 
parative Medicine , appreciating the generous support of the 
profession of the State, tendered its constituency a delightful 
banquet at the late annual meeting of the State Association. 
In turn, the members, as a slight token of the esteem in which 
the editor of that journal is held by them, presented him with 
a handsome and costly dinner set of silver, and Dr. Pearson, as 
spokesman for his fellow-members, said all sorts of nice things 
about the recipient. The best of it is that Brother Hoskins 
deserves it all. 
WE very much regret to note a backward step in the Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College, whereby it appears that the special 
purpose which brought the college into existence in 1881 through 
the philanthropy of Augustus Storrs—the advancement of the 
science of agriculture—is to be relegated to make room for pet 
theories of its President. In consequence four professors have 
resigned, among them that earnest and capable veterinarian, 
Nelson S. Mayo, M. S., D. V. M., professor of anatomy, physi¬ 
ology and veterinary science. 
The Review will print another series of papers read at the 
Tuberculosis Congress in the October number. 
