NOTICE. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Ill 
sire to overleap the boundaries of professional courtesy, and we are 
positive that he will be the first to acknowledge the fact and try 
in the future to correct the impression thus carried, and so gen¬ 
tlemanly complained of in the letter the editor of the Veterinary 
Journal sends to us for publication in this number of the Re¬ 
view. 
NOTICE. 
We wuiild remind our friends, whose subscriptions have ex¬ 
pired, to notify us of their desire to renew the same, and take this 
occasion to assure them of our sincere thanks for the continua¬ 
tion of their patronage and of their friendly support towards the 
Review. 
REPORT OF THE CATTLE COMMISSIONERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 
RELATING TO PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN 1863. 
{See page 73.) 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 
In accordance with the law of 1860, relating to contagions diseases among 
cattle, the following report is respectfully submitted : 
April 20th. Charles P. Preston, of Danvers, and E. F. Thayer, of (West) 
Newton, were appointed to fill vacancies existing in the Board of Cattle Com¬ 
missioners. 
The Commissioners have been called to visit nineteen towns, and to examine 
the cattle of thirty different herds during the past eight mouths In six only 
was the disease called pleuro-pneumonia found to exist, viz : in one herd in the 
towns respectively of Lincoln, Ashby and Boxborough, in two herds in Lexing¬ 
ton, and in the herd belonging to the City of Boston at Deer Islaud. 
A herd of cattle belonging to John P. Reed, of Lexington, had been isolated, 
by order of the selectmen, aud a few days before May 1st was discharged by 
them from further isolation. The cattle were carefully examined, aud no disease 
was found to exist among them. 
