EDITORIAL. 
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dents’ cooperative tours,’ thus making them to combine a little 
sight-seeing and the enjoyment of traveling with a visit to the 
museums and laboratories and school buildings of such institu¬ 
tions as the great Veterinary School of Alfort, that of Berlin, 
the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and the Hygienic Institute at 
Berlin, where diseases common to man and the lower animals 
are constantly the subject of investigation. Traveling scholar¬ 
ships would be of quite as much advantage to veterinary as to 
medical students.” 
This is a wise suggestion, which can be just as well realized 
by American veterinary students as by those of England. Simi¬ 
lar cooperative traveling clubs already exist in the United States. 
E\ery year members of those organizations of various forms of 
instruction come and visit Europe ; why could not veterinary 
students join them ? Why could not such prize be offered by 
colleges instead of the free scholarship? Why could not some 
generous benefactor be found to help to defray at least part of 
the expenses ? Of course there are many objections that can be 
made , tlieie are many ifs in the way of a realization of the ob¬ 
jects, but yet are the obstacles insurmountable ? That is a 
question. 
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Koch’s Old and New Theories.— Professor McFadyean 
is decidedly a severe critic, and he seldom, if ever, advances a 
statement that he cannot substantiate with proofs by undeniable 
evidence. His last editorial in the December issue of his ex¬ 
cellent quarterly shows it. At the recent Congress on Tuber¬ 
culosis, answering the new theory advanced by Prof. Koch as 
to the relationship existing between human and bovine tuber¬ 
culosis, he said : u I thought, Prof. Koch, when you had found 
a bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis in man and a bacillus in 
the cow, you came to the conclusion that they were one and the 
same.” To which Koch answered: “No, I never indicated 
such a conclusion.” 
In a notice to a correspondent to the Veterinary Record the 
writer said that Prof. McFadyean was foolish to have made the 
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