American Veterinary Review. 
JANUARY, 1900. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, Nero York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
DETROIT THE CONVENTION CITY OF 1900. 
In the December Review the prediction was made that 
either Detroit, Milwaukee, or Minneapolis would receive the 
decision of the Executive Committee of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association as die place for holding the next meeting 
of that body, and we are enabled to announce that the choice has 
fallen to the first-named city. Located on the western bank of 
Lake Erie, within easy reach of the great mass of the members 
of the Association, it is an ideal point for a national gathering, 
It is not so central as some cities situated further to the south, 
but it will meet with the approval of the majority of the mem¬ 
bers. The membership is greatest in the East and throughout 
the Central West, extending as far towards the Pacific Slope as 
Arizona and Washington, while the meeting of 1898 brought 
in a great number from Nebraska, Iowa, and other adjacent 
States. Not only is the selection of Detroit a happy decision 
geographically, but it is a just reward for patient waiting, since 
year after year her veterinarians have placed her name in nom¬ 
ination and urged her many claims. There are no more earnest 
men anywhere than those of that city ; they need the influence 
and the prestige of so auspicious an event as the assembling with¬ 
in her hospitable walls of the National Association, and, while 
the Review would be pleased to see the claims of the other 
candidates honored, it feels that the decision of the Executive 
Committee has been a wise one at this time. 
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