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CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE “JOURNAL” AND THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE OF THE 
A. V. M. A. 
Ithaca, N. V., May 22, 1900. 
Editors A meric an Veterinary Review: 
Dear Sirs :—The March Journal , which, owing to the late¬ 
ness of the season, came out in May, makes an unwarranted 
attack upon the Publication Committee in the following words: 
“Some papers,of much importance, specially prepared for the 
New York meeting, are omitted entirely, others are severely 
abstracted, while the discussions as reproduced fail very much 
in many instances of being faithful reproductions of what was 
said and discussed.” 
Each of the three charges are malicious falsehoods. 
No papers were, but only a paper was omitted entirely. 
When the senior editor of the Journal presented his paper at 
the meeting the chairman of the committee immediately re¬ 
quested it, but was denied, and the paper retained until the 
Journal editors knew the proceedings were in print, apparently 
for the purpose of trumping up false charges. 
Neither were papers abstracted either “ severely ” or mildly. 
In one paper the author had introduced a large amount of irre¬ 
levant matter which had no connection either direct or remote 
with the title of the paper. This irrelevant matter being in a 
block, the entire block was omitted without disturbing the 
symmetry of the paper, and without losing a sentence, thought 
or word which had any relation to the title of the paper. This 
was completely within the committee’s jurisdiction, was a kind¬ 
ness to the author, and a saving in money and in scientific 
value to the association. 
The third charge of unfaithfulness in the reproduction of 
discussions reaches the acme of blind malice. The committee 
employed a competent stenographer, who very promptly de¬ 
livered typewritten copies of all discussions in duplicate, and 
one of these copies designed for and used by the printer was 
handed to each participant in the discussion for correction and 
every discussion was printed just as corrected by the speaker 
himself, except in matters wholly unimportant, like some busi¬ 
ness discussions, which were edited and the bare record of the 
actions inserted. 
Errors there were, they always occur, and the committee sin- 
