EDITORIAL. 
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Society will hold its tenth annual meeting at Ithaca, the seat of 
Cornell University. Great efforts are being put forth to make 
this an important and profitable occasion from every phase, the 
clinical feature being an especially strong one for this meeting. 
Elsewhere in this number will be found an outline of the pro¬ 
gramme, and it is certainly sufficiently attractive to cause every 
veterinarian who can possibly lay aside his work for two days 
to accept the broad invitation to join with the members in mak¬ 
ing this the most successful meeting in the history of the society. 
Dr. Adolph Eichhorn, of the American Veterinary Hos¬ 
pital, New York, contributes to the current number of the 
Review the first details of an operation for the relief of bone 
spavin which has been engaging the attention of European 
veterinarians for some time. It consists in neurectomies of the 
tibial and peroneal nerves, and is styled “ double neurectomy 
for spavin.” There are several cases at the American Veter¬ 
inary Hospital awaiting this operation, and the Doctor 
promises that Review readers shall be kept informed as to the 
results in the minutest detail; and if they are as successful as. 
those reported by our Enropean colleagues, there can be but lit¬ 
tle question as to the popularity of the procedure with American 
veterinarians, as hitherto the results in many cases have been 
exceedingly embarrassing. 
The death of Prof. O. C. Marsh removes the most eminent 
authority on the prehistoric horse. He discovered in the Rocky 
Mountains and elsewhere many distinct specimens of the origi¬ 
nal horse, belonging to thirty distinct species, and he dug out a 
great many other perfect fossil animals as well. No one ever 
made so many important discoveries in the rocks as he did in 
this particular line, and at thirty-one years of age he was fam¬ 
ous in the scientific world. He was the leading authority on 
the fossil horse, and apparently brought to aid him in his work 
a measure of good luck never enjoyed by any other geologist. 
Fortunately he leaves behind him a complete account of his 
discoveries.—( Breeder's Gazette .) 
