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GEORGE FLEMING. 
shall not return home without having derived great satisfaction 
and profit from their visit to New York. 
We would call the attention of veterinary book buyers and 
students to the advertisement of Mr. W. R. Jenkins, who, we 
happen to know, can fully supply all demands for veterinary lit¬ 
erature. Recognizing the importance of the profession and its 
requirements in tlie way of standard works of reference (too 
few of which are published), he has made a specialty of this 
branch of book selling and publishing, and has gathered together 
the largest assortment of books relating to domestic animals to 
be found in any book-store in the country. 
The gelatine capsules advertised in the Review by H. Planten 
& Son have proved in our hands an excellent vehicle for the 
administration of medicine to our large animals. For those who 
prescribe volatile compounds, they will be found very excellent 
and practicable, and more eligible than the usual covering of 
paper. They are certainly worthy of a trial. 
HUMAN AND ANIMAL VARIOLA!: A STUDY IN COM¬ 
PARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
By George Fleming, F.R.C.V.S., Army Veterinary Inspector. 
(From The Veterinary Journal, London, England. Reprinted from the Lancet Jor 
January 31st.) 
The recent conference held in London on Animal Vaccination 
will not have been without a useful result, if it has been the 
means of not only drawing attention to this particular subject, 
but also to the very meagre knowledge we seem to possess with 
