EDITORIAL 
299 
JVe hope this event will serve as a stimulus to increase competition 
imong those whose energies, it was hoped, would be specially stim- 
ilated by the institution of this offer of prizes for the best ex- 
libition of scholarship. The prize of the Association will, we 
10 pe, be continue to be offered; that of the Review is still sub- 
, ec t to capture at the next September meeting. 
' Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia.— The remarks which the 
shairman of the Committee on Diseases submitted at the annual 
meeting of the National Association ought to have elicited from 
the Association some general discussion of the subject of the con¬ 
tagious diseases which prevail amongst our cattle, especially two 
0 f°the number, viz : pleuro-pneumonia and anthrax. The recent 
outbreak at Quebec, and the rapid manner in which the Canadian 
authorities disposed of it, offers a sound example for our own 
officials in Washington. A letter headed “Red Tape, which 
we copy from the Breeders' Gazette, seems to show that according 
to the author, much deficiency of action has been exhibited by 
our veterinarians. Once more, we cannot suppress our regret 
that the red tape of administrative rules does not suffer veterin¬ 
arians to be made acquainted with what most of ns consider a 
duty due to the profession. 
Inoculation Against Anthrax was also recommended in the 
report of the chairman of the same committee. Time and time 
ao-ain has the same recommendation been urged. The Breeders 
Gazette, that most excellent paper, in one of its last issues has these 
vpniRrks * 
Inoculation for Anthrax.— At the recent Edinburg meet- 
ins of the National Veterinary Association of Great Britain a 
paper was read prepared by Prof. McFadyeau, of the Royal Vet¬ 
erinary College, and Dr. Woodhead, Pathologist to the Royal 
Infirmary, and the subject of micro-parasites of domestic animals, 
in which it was stated with reference to anthrax that Pastern 
has succeeded in preparing a vaccine by the employment of which 
the domestic ruminants are put in possession of a high degree ot 
immunity against spontaneous or inoculated anthrax , that by 
known method of attenuation can there be obtained a vaccine of 
absolutely uniform strength; that it is not possible to obtain a 
vaccine that is at once and equally applicable to all the diffeie 
species of domestic animals, or even to all the different bleeds ot 
