EDITORIAL. 
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to a five-page idiotic and clumsily-constructed lot of nonsense 
entitled “ A Prophetic Vision ; being a lyecture to be Delivered 
by the President of the Royal Zoological Society at the Open¬ 
ing of the Session, November, 2097.” It purports to be an his¬ 
torical sketch of an extinct animal known as eqitiis caballus^ or 
the horse, and describes the motive power for carriages and 
other vehicles of that date as electric cables. Such twaddle 
may be appropriate reading matter for English comic papers, 
but for a professional journal it is stupid and out of place. 
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The Tubercueosis Crusade in Honoeueu. —A check is 
sought to be placed upon the testing of cattle with tuberculin 
in Honolulu by a charge that the epidemic of dysentery now 
affecting the people of that city is due to the tuberculin injected 
into the milk cows by the local inspectors, and the author of 
the charges makes the assertion that its use has been abandoned 
in Germany for the reason that it poisons the system and renders 
the milk unfit for consumption. Surely the veterinarians of 
that country have had sufficient evidence of the falsity of such 
assertions through the pages of the Review and other sources 
to effectually deny and prove that the milk from tested cows 
suffers no deterioration in its purity from such a source. 
The Engeish Lady Veterinarian. —Principal Williams 
and his son, Owen W. Williams, of the New Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, Edinburgh, Scotland, have begun suit against the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons to compel them to admit 
for examination for license a lady whom they qualified and who 
was refused by the examiners on account of her sex. 
Editoriae Modesty has naturally restrained us from as¬ 
suming that the veterinary periodical is the greatest factor in 
professional development; but there can be no egotism in sin¬ 
cerely seconding the remarks of *Dr. Dairymple in his report to 
the United States Veterinary Medical Association, which we 
print elsewhere, and to which we direct careful attention. 
