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EDITORIAL. 
the gram ; none of them develop fermentation of sugar or 
liquefy gelatine. They all have to a supreme degree the prop¬ 
erty of localizing their action on the intestines, or the lung, and 
give rise easily to lesions of haemorrhagic septicaemia.” For 
Professor Lignieres, the Pasteurella is but one species among 
ovoid bacteria, and differentiates it from the Salmonella which 
imposes the name of Salmonellosis for the pneumo-enteritis of 
swine, whose microbe was so well described by Dr. D. B. Sal¬ 
mon, of Washington. 
This distinction of two species of ovoid bacteria implies the 
probability of others as causes of many other microbian diseases, 
not yet classified, and opens a larger field of inquiry at the hands 
of microbiologists, and among them the learned Alfort professor 
intends to do his share. To facilitate his investigations he has 
asked us to call upon the veterinarians of the United States for 
help in the shape of information, lesions, specimens, etc., relat¬ 
ing to all ovoid bacteria, which give rise to the phenomena 
which were known as haemorrhagic septicaemia. All such ad¬ 
dressed to Prof. Bignieres, Laboratoire des Haciendados, Santa 
Fe, 4299, Buenos Ayres, will be thankfully received and credited 
in his works. A. L. 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
While we had hoped to be able to announce in this issue of 
the Review that the section of the Army bill placing the vet¬ 
erinary surgeon upon the commissioned-officer list, with rank, 
pay, and authority of a second lieutenant of cavalry, we are yet 
in that hopeful state of expectancy caused by the entire meas¬ 
ure being held up in the Senate. ^ There can be no doubt of 
the final enactment of that section if the reorganized army bill 
becomes a law, and we take it that the present temper of the 
American people will not longer tolerate the farcical standing 
army of 27,000 men, especially since assuming a position 
among the Eastern powers. Under the guidance of Chair¬ 
man Salmon, of the Committee on Army Legislation of the 
A. V. M. A., the demands of the profession throughout the 
