CORRESPONDENCE. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
To the Editor of the American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Mr. Editor and esteemed colleague.—At not very infre¬ 
quent intervals, there have appeared articles in your interesting 
periodical, in which, in one part or another, indulgence in strong 
language and undeserved disparagement, either towards myself 
personally, or the Journal which I edit, is manifested. I have 
hesitated to notice these attacks hitherto, trusting to the sense of 
fairness which I know your readers to possess, and also hoping 
that your editorial influence would be invoked in my behalf, or, 
at least in that of your contemporary, the Veterinary Journal. 
But as these vituperations and unfounded assertions are continued, 
and appear to have become a permanent feature in certain com¬ 
munications, I think it is high time to notice them, and to ask for 
your exercise of the editorial privilege. In the Review for April, 
just at hand, there is a paper, at page 12, with a heading in German, 
and which is a kind of translation from that language; and one 
of the early sentences, serving to introduce the subject, contains 
the statement that “ about all the matter of any scientific value 
in the Veterinary Journal , Britain’s leading review, is purloined 
from continental workers.” JSTow, whatever meaning the word 
purloin may bear in Germany or the United States of America, 
we, in this country, understand it to signify theft or dishonesty. 
If such be the meaning the writer of the articles in question in¬ 
tended to convey, I have no course open but to repudiate, in the 
most forcible terms I can find, such an unwarranted charge. I 
indignantly deny that any article which has appeared in the Vet¬ 
erinary Journal has, to my knowledge, been purloined. It is true 
that translations of papers which have been published in foreign 
periodicals sometimes appear in that journal, and I trust in com¬ 
prehensible and undefiled English. But I am not aware that 
they are claimed as original communications, or that any attempt 
is made to steal the credit of them from their authors. The Vet¬ 
erinary Journal may not contain as extremely scientific and 
