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EDITORIAL. 
would feel bound to call a meeting of the Comitia Minora before 
the notices are sent; and we are quite certain that a new vote 
will come to the relief of our western friends. It remains with 
the members of the Association to decide whether those who intend 
to join its ranks, and who know but little of its doings, shall be 
satisfied in making their application in writing to the meeting in 
March, or will do it personally, in being present as invited, in 
some one of the western cities. The result for them will be the 
same, of course, as they will always be obliged to wait till the 
next meeting for admission, but in the first case they will not be 
able to judge of the Association as well as in the second. 
OHIO STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
We publish in full the reports of the annual meeting of the 
above named organization. It is with great pleasure that we 
give them a place in our pages, and we cannot but congratulate 
our colleagues of that great State in having so successfully 
realized what we consider one of the most advantageous steps in 
the history of veterinary medicine in the United States. We 
shall always be glad to hear from the Ohio Veterinary Associ¬ 
ation, and to receive from its members any publication they might 
see fit to send us. 
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
The first number of the fifth volume of the Quarterly Jour¬ 
nal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery appears with the an¬ 
nouncement of a change in the editorial staff, one of the gentle¬ 
men formerly composing it retiring for the purpose of attending 
to more pressing engagements, and making room for our friend 
and colleague, Mr. F. S. Billings, V. M. We welcome the new 
Journal and journalist, and sincerely wfish it all possible success. 
We call it the “ new ” Journal , and feel authorized to apply the 
adjective and to consider it as new in the sense of veterinary 
journalism, from the fact that this is the first time in its history 
that a graduate, educated essentially as a veterinarian, has come 
to occupy the editorial chair. Recognizing as we all do, the 
