EDITORIAL. 
19.5 
pleasure in announcing that we have now in our possession vaccine 
virus, as prepared by Pasteur, by Chauveau and by Cornevin, and 
that we will gladly furnish our colleagues with samples of them 
for trial. We feel assured that, if properly employed, the same 
beneficial results will follow here as elsewhere, and our domestic 
animals enjoy a desirable immunity against those diseases to which 
the destruction of so many of them is every year to be attributed. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meeting of this association will be held in a few 
days in New York, and we take occasion to remind the numerous 
members of the importance of the meetings, and of the necessity 
and duty of their attendance. The meetings have grown yearly 
in interest, and the attendance has steadily augmented, and many 
reasons might be stated why this year the result should indicate 
still greater interest, and larger showing of the membership. 
Last year the meeting of the association was held in Cincinnati, 
and all those who were present will remember how profitable and 
pleasant an event it was. The change in the plan of meeting has 
no doubt produced amongst veterinarians of the West a more 
harmonious feeling toward their brother practitioners of the East 
than before existed, and it is to be hoped that this fraternal senti¬ 
ment will be strengthened at the coming meeting. From letters 
that have reached us we derive abundant evidence that the divi¬ 
sion that existed on account of the formation of a new so-called 
“National” body, is likely to subside, and that many Western 
members will be present, either as delegates of Western State so¬ 
cieties, or with a view to unite personally with our body. 
It is to be hoped that the heads of the various committees and 
others will be prepared with full and good reports upon the sub¬ 
jects placed in their charge, and that those to whom the organiza¬ 
tion of the meeting is intrusted will have perfected all the 
measures necessary to make it in every sense a success. In order 
to refresh the minds of the various officers from whom reports or 
papers may be expected, we publish in another place a list of those 
upon whom will rest the responsibility of these matters. 
