EDITORIAL. 
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THE NASHVILLE MEETING AND THE REVIEW. 
Before this September number of the Review can reach 
many-of the members of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association they will be en route for Nashville to attend its 
thirty-fourth annual meeting, to participate in the exceptionally 
full and interesting programme which has been secured for the 
educational and social entertainment of those who are so fortu¬ 
nate as to be able to be present. The Review has detailed to 
its readers the preparations for this convention as they have de¬ 
veloped, and has never ceased to urge them to strain every sinew 
to profit by the opportunity afforded, and we go to press on the 
eve of assembling with the firm belief that none will be absent 
where attendance is possible ; and to those who may fail we are 
going to do our full • duty—for the October Review will be a 
perfect reflection of the stirring veterinary events which shall 
occur at Nashville, and, if they are sorrowful that circumstances 
of whatever nature have bound them at home, they shall at 
least be glad that they have the Review to fall back on to par- 
tially compensate. Then we say. Godspeed to the National Con¬ 
vention of 1897 !—the most promising in every respect that has 
ever been called to order. 
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QUACK APPOINTMENTS ALREADY YIELDING 
FRUIT. 
Apropos of the appointment by the Governor of Illinois of a 
non-graduate to the office of State Veterinarian, and the warn¬ 
ing letter as to its effects upon our foreign trade in live stock 
by President Walker, of the Chicago Veterinary Society, we 
find the following comment in the August Vete^unary Journal 
(England) : “ Evidently the warnings of Mr. Walker are fully 
justified, for Mr. Bowhill, F.R.C.V.S., formerly professor of bac¬ 
teriology at the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh, who has 
recently returned to this country from America, informs ns that 
in the vessel iir which he crossed the Atlantic there were three 
horses that died of ‘ pinkeVe ’ on the passage. In view of the 
above facts, our veterinar}^ inspectors on this side of the water 
