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EDITORIAL. 
hence the birthplace of the profession should be the location 
also of its “ Jubilee.” In a year of veterinary prosperity, in the 
heart of the most populous veterinary district of the country, 
surrounded by states with vigorous associations and with one or 
more veterinarians on every state and municipal health board, 
as well as those under the patronage of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, to say nothing of the army of private practitioners, 
it is certainly not an exaggeration of imagination to anticipate a 
climax of attendance and interest in the approaching meeting. 
And all of them attracted by this great sextuple event: 
The American Veterinary Medical Association ; 
The New York State Veterinary Medical Society ; 
The New York County Veterinary Medical Association; 
The Association of Veterinary Faculties of North America; 
The Experiment Station Veterinary Medical Association ; 
The Alumni Association of the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege (Silver Anniversary). 
There can scarcely be a veterinarian in the realm who is 
not interested in some one or all of these gatherings, and the 
Review calls upon them to begin now to make preparations to 
lay aside all other business for the second week in September, 
1899, an d devote this uninterruptedly to the great “Veteri¬ 
nary Jubilee.” 
Elsewhere will be found the programme as far as completed, 
and we print it thus in full in the hope that its tempting con¬ 
tents will induce all those who can possibly leave their homes 
and businesses to come to Gotham and join their brethren in 
the great feast of reason and round of pleasure. 
THE TUBERCULOSIS AWAKENING. 
Although those whose special facilities for study and conclu¬ 
sion entitles them to be classed as authorities positively and 
persistently proclaim that the milk and flesh of cattle are the 
most prolific sources of infection to the human subject of the 
scourge consumption, the importance of the subject is ever and 
anon being discounted by certain medical men and the press 
