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announce the vote of that committee on the place for holding- 
Uie next meeting of the association. It is as follows : for 
Omaha,^ lo; for Boston, 3. Now, that this important question 
of location has been settled, with such a decided majority for 
the successful 'VVestern city, let ns all join forces and strive to 
make the meeting next September the greatest in the history 
of our association. Greatest, not only in good to the individual 
membership, but also in real growth of the association as the 
national representative of American veterinary science. 
Very respectfully, 
Tait Butlkr, Chair77taii Ex. Co 77 imittee. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
V' System. By C. Bruce Lowe. Edited by 
W. Alhson. New York : W. R. Jenkins, Publisher, 851 Sixth Avenue. ^ 
We have received from the well-known veterinary publish¬ 
ing house of Jenkins, the American edition of this celebrated 
work of Bruce Lowe, and while we cannot in the limited space 
at our disposal, undertake to give even an idea of the system to 
which the author has given a life-time of study, we can assure 
those of our readers who are interested in the scientific breeding- 
of the thoroughbred that he has mastered in the simplest fashion 
. possible a method of mating producing sires and running fami¬ 
lies so that the merest novice can understand and appreciate it. 
Taking as the basis of calculations families whose sires are pre¬ 
potent he gives them certain numbers, and other figures to 
strains whose members are especially noted as racers, and he in¬ 
dicates how their union may produce the best qualifications. 
1 he history of the past proves the accuracy of his deductions 
and the prophecies for the future are grounded upon the same 
reasoning. It is^ quarto in size, illustrated by photographic 
plates of noted sires, is splendidly bound, and contains 262 
pages. ^ As illustrative of the scope of the work, it contains the 
following chapters : Origin of the vitality of the English race- 
horse ; identification of female lines by figures ; a classification 
ot the tamilies ; sires, the line of Wisher ; some Australian sires • 
the running lines^ and how to use them ; how to breed great 
stake horses and sires ; phenomenal race-horses ; the breedino-of 
sprinters , the theory of saturation, or the influence of sire upon 
dam ; inbred dams and outbred sires ; stud farms and their man¬ 
agement , on the law of sex ; the Arab as an outcross ; gossip 
about men and horses. ^ 
