EDITORIAL. 
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<is to the best means of dealing - with the subject, and will guar¬ 
antee to bring the matter before the Society next September, 
embodying the best of these suggestions. 
VETERINARY PROGRESS IN THE PHILIPPINES. 
There has been organized at Manila the Philippine Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Association, and the very good working basis of 
fourteen members have signed the constitution and bv-laws. 
Dr. W. R. L. Best, was elected President; Dr. J. A. Tucker, 
Vice-President; Dr. M. H. Meekie, Treasurer, and Dr. W. w! 
Richards, Secretary. A number of committees were appointed, 
and we may soon expect some interesting literature upon the 
diseases of this new possession of Uncle Sam’s. The Review 
has been publishing from time to time articles upon the pecu¬ 
liar diseases found by our veterinarians among the horses and 
mules which are native, and which are contracted there by those 
brought from America, there being in this number a valuable 
one from Dr. John G. Slee, of the Manila Board of Health. Dr. 
Coleman Nockolds, of the U. S. Cavalry, located at Batangas, 
has also furnished a number of papers for the benefit of our 
readers. Recently he described the disease “ Surra,” as he found 
it, and we have in hand awaiting publication in the February 
number, a further study of this malady. With the advent of 
the new association, a more systematic study of the etiology, 
pathology, and treatment of these and other affections found 
among the animals in that country can be undertaken, and by 
that interchange of experience and observation which can only 
take place through the discussions of such an association, a cor¬ 
rect and rational estimate of the characteristics of the morbid 
processes can be arrived at. We congratulate our brethren up¬ 
on this wise step, and wish to assure them that the Review 
will be ever ready to assist them in so far as lies in its power. 
BACK NUMBERS OF THE REVIEW. 
We would be very much pleased to have our subscribers 
read the notice at the foot of the last page of reading matter in 
