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and experience to the general fund, in return for the advantages 
they may derive from association with their fellows. 
We can but give expression also to our satisfaction with the 
resolutions endorsing the work of the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try, for we feel confident that all the officers connected with the 
Bureau have attended fully to their duties. We have before re¬ 
marked that if the work of the Bureau fails, it will not be the 
fault of the veterinarians. 
We think Dr. Hopkins has reason to be gratified by*the pas¬ 
sage of his anti-inoculation resolutions, as while the propriety 
of the operation will be generally recognized, it is pretty evident 
that it cannot as yet be fully accepted as a practical measure, 
unless the stamping-out process is to be entirely abandoned. 
Preventive Inoculation not Always Advisable. —We have 
just received the Missouri State Agricultural College Bulletin , 
No. 24, relating to contagious diseases and their prevention, by 
Dr. Paul Paquin. It embraces a report of Prof. Paquin’s sojourn 
in Paris; of his studies under Pasteur, Nocard, Cornil, Chante- 
messe, as well as attendance at the Alfort School of Veterinary 
Science. If there were any doubts in the doctor’s mind before 
going abroad as to the part germs play in the causation of disease, 
his researches while there have entirely removed them. The 
Bulletin, written as it chiefly is for agriculturists, is replete with 
familiar and apt comparisons, that make the possibility of disease 
extension by these micro-organisms very practical and plain. It 
also shows these bodies to be the cause and not the result of such 
diseases. 
Pasteur’s methods of attenuation were carefully studied, and 
if the agriculturists of Missouri will do their part, we may soon 
have our viruses attenuated here, when they will be free from the 
fatal objection urged, in some instances, of an imported virus 
being too old. 
It is also hoped that Dr. Paquin will be granted time and 
means to carry out investigations as to the exact nature of our 
swine plague, and to prepare, if possible, a prophylactic attenuated 
virus. 
A portion of the Bulletin is taken up with a plea for the value 
