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called, members had not been properly notified, and while more 
than a large quorum was present, no business could be transacted. 
Where does the blame belong? Undoubtedly to a lack of interest ' 
on the part of those whose duty it was to see that not only timely 
notices were issued, but who should also have made it their duty 
to arrange properly the details of the business likely to demand 
attention, and to see that those who at a pecuniary loss from the 
suspension of their practice were willing to submit to personal 
sacrifice and undergo the fatigue and expense of travel for the 
sake of being present, should have an opportunity of deriving 
some commensurate advantage from the occasion. 
These are questions of vital importance to this as well as to 
other associations. 
The United States Veterinary Medical Body cannot afford a 
repetition of the fiasco made in Boston, unless they are prepared 
to surrender their claim to be the oldest, best and most active 
organization of the country. 
In our new volume we intend to take careful cognizance of 
the progress of veterinary medicine as indicated in the agricultural 
papers. In inaugurating this new departure, it is with regret 
that in reprinting an article from so influential and respectable a 
( paper as the Breeders 1 Gazette , we find in the article relating to 
the value of Pasteur’s vaccine in hog cholera, errors which we 
cannot overlook. In justice to Mr. Pasteur’s valuable discoveries 
we feel it to be our duty to correct some of these—we trust, in¬ 
voluntary—errors, as they appear in the extract referred to, and 
which, were they to remain nncorrected, might result in serious 
injury to the interests of the swine breeders of the country. 
The vaccine matter, with directions for the manner of using 
it, was furnished to the State Veterinarian of Nebraska by our¬ 
selves , with the design, not of testing the value of the process, 
but of proving the efficiency of the vaccine matter as imported 
! directly from Europe, and ascertaining whether it would prove, 
after importation, a^ successful as it is in Europe. Can it be 
; transported by steamer after a few days of preparation, and cross 
the Atlantic, passing, with more or less delay, through the custom 
house, and, after several days again added to its age, be carried 
