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not the members notified ? or did the members thus notified 
throw the notice aside and forget all about it ? 
This is a very bad state of affairs, and one which, if continued, 
might prove very detrimental to the usefulness and to the life of 
the Association. 
Still, the meeting did some worthy act; it has appointed a com¬ 
mittee and appropriated a certain amount of money to carry on 
experiments upon the value of inoculation againnt anthrax by 
the method of Pasteur. This is a move in the right direction, for 
while it is giving an opportunity to test the value of the prophy¬ 
lactic treatment of a series of fatal diseases of our domestic ani¬ 
mals by one peculiar way, it is not, after all, only the Pasteur 
vaccination itself which will thus be tried, but vaccination itself. 
If successful in this mode, the Association should have them keep 
up their experiments and try the other processes, which, in the 
eyes of many European authorities, are of a more practicable ap¬ 
plication and just as successful. 
INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
As our readers have been informed already in the .Review, 
the fourth International Veterinary Congress is to take place in 
1883, at a date to be named on a later period, at Brussels. A num¬ 
ber of circulars have already been sent all over the world and 
every effort taken to make it a great success. 
The first congress, which was held some twenty years ago, 
was started by Prof. John Gamgee, and took place in Hamburg. 
In 1865 the second session of the congress took place in Vienna, 
and followed by a third meeting in September, 1867, at Zurich, 
which, after interesting labors, adjourned to 1870, when the 
meeting was to be called at Brussels. From unforseen events, 
however, the Committee on Organization failed to have the meet¬ 
ing at the time apppinted, but since then arrangements have been 
made to hold it next year. Amongst the interesting questions 
which are to be discussed there is one which we think will be 
studied by veterinarians ^11 over the world, and perhaps more by 
those of America, where the profession is comparatively young, 
