American Yeterinary Review, 
APRIL, 1885. 
EDITORIAL 
OUR NINTH VOLUME. 
Our readers will excuse our feeling of satisfaction and pride, 
and our contributors accept the tender of our thanks upon the 
issue of the opening number of our ninth volume. For the past 
eight years, during which we have labored in the publication of 
the Review, we have endeavored to conduct it in such a manner 
as to insure to our friends and readers both pleasure and profit in 
the study of its pages. The success which has rewarded our un¬ 
dertaking, proved not only by our length of life, but by our con¬ 
stantly increasing list of subscribers, is evidence that we have not 
failed in our efforts nor labored in vain. It is also a stimulus to 
increased zeal and faithfulness, and encourages us in the task we 
have accepted, of carrying forward the flag of veterinary science 
and education. In issuing the present number, we cannot, there¬ 
fore, do less than improve the opportunity to thank our friends 
and assistants for their able co-operation in the work of making 
the Review essentially the Yeterinary Journal of the United 
States, and the accepted organ of the veterinary profession and 
of the veterinary colleges and societies of the country. 
It shall be our highest aim to persevere in the same path, 
