EDITORIAL. 
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will no doubt remain the one that wise and loving mothers all 
over the world will always remember to protect their little 
ones. A. E. 
THE ASSOCIATIONS. 
As promised last month, the Review presents in this issue 
full and, as it believes, accurate accounts of the great National 
and State gatherings of veterinarians which occurred during the 
first half of September. At the same time, we very sincerely 
regret that the important meeting of the Pennsylvania State As¬ 
sociation, which convened at Pittsburg on the 17th ult., is not 
among the number included in our reports, which is owing to 
no fault of this journal, since we have on very many occasions 
endeavored to have the secretaries of all the Pennsylvania asso¬ 
ciations transmit reports of their deliberations for publication. 
We feel that we owe this explanation to our large list of sub¬ 
scribers in that State, who have expressed surprise that, while 
the Review regularly prints the proceedings of every associa¬ 
tion^ in the country, it so infrequently contains those of their 
own State. It is to be deplored that our readers are debarred 
from profiting by the very earnest work-done by the progressive 
veterinarians of the Keystone State, with its three well-attended 
associations, and we again place our pages at their disposal, to 
be used as freely as they may wish. 
Taking the fall meetings of 1901 as a whole, they were the 
best in every sense ever held in this country, attracting larger 
numbers, with keener interest in all that transpired, whether 
in the assembly hall or the clinic-room, with admirable fellow¬ 
ship and the most pleasant social features. All of which augurs 
well for the future of the profession and of the associations. 
JOHN F. WINCHESTER, D. V. S. 
Elsewhere in this number will be found an excellent repro¬ 
duction of the pleasing face and noble bust of this gallant son 
of Massachusetts, who was, last month, exalted to tUe position 
of President of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 
