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EDITORIAL. 
antiseptic preparation after he has covered a suspected female. 
Bang hopes to find a prophylactic or even a curative sernm ; an 
expectation which is justified by the natnml immunization of 
animals after repeated abortions. A. L. 
The New York Jury Bill, exempting the veterinarians of 
New York and Kings Counties from service upon juries—those 
of all the other counties of the State having been released by an 
act passed some four years ago—was awaiting the signature of 
Governor Black as the Review went to press. Through the 
untiring efforts of Dr. Arthur O’Shea, chairman of the Com¬ 
mittee on Legislation of the Veterinary Medical Association of 
New York County, and member of a similar committee of the 
State society, aided by State Senator Timothy P. Sullivan, of 
New York City, the bill has been piloted through both the 
Senate and Assembly against unusual obstacles. Exemption 
bills reach without much difficulty their reference to the com¬ 
mittee-room, but to start them from that resting place it is 
always tedious and uncertain, requiring that tenacity and per¬ 
sistency which characterizes the genial O’Shea. The thanks 
of metropolitan veterinarians will not be withheld from the 
Doctor, though they will never know the amount of work it has 
cost him until they perform a similar task. 
A New Method of Determining the Presence of Or¬ 
ganic Life. —In the February Review there appeared the sad 
announcement of the demise of that promising young veteri¬ 
narian, Dr. Carlisle N. Darke, of Gnttenburg, N. J., the infor¬ 
mation having reached this office from two different sources. 
With extreme regret his name was placed among the galaxy of 
those who have closed the books of their earthly accounts, and 
we erased his address from the subscription books. Nothing 
seems to have been able to bring forth a protest from the un¬ 
witting hero of the incident except the discontinuance of the 
Review, for he writes that he is as well as usual and demands 
to know why he has not received his February number. 
