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EDITORIAL. 
]y act of the Faculty of the College will be taken advantage of 
and may assist in elevating the veterinary profession in the ranks 
of the American military service. 
ARMY VETERINARIANS. 
For the interest of our army colleagues, we continue in this 
number the publication of Military Veterinary organization in 
the different countries of Europe, by presenting some extracts 
from the French service, relating principally to the number of 
veterinarians, their divisions, the mode of promotion, their rank, 
pay, and time of entering the retired list. 
REPORT ON DISEASES OF SWINE. 
We have received through the kindness of the Department of 
Agriculture, the special report on the investigation of diseases of 
swine, and infectious and contagious diseases, collected b^ a num¬ 
ber of veterinarians and physicians throughout the different States. 
The reports are presented in the shape of a volume of about 300 
pages. It is numerously illustrated and printed in an easily read 
type. It contains facts of very great interest to all those who 
wish to obtain information upon these diseases, and will be read 
by scientific men with pleasure and benefit. 
Paul Pert has just received the prize from the University of 
Edinburgh for the best discovery in therapeutics during the year. 
He has also had the luck to gain the case brought against him by 
a tender-hearted neighbor, who could no longer bear the cries of 
the animals brought under his knife in his vivisection experiments. 
The jury believing in “ the cause of science,” he was acquitted, 
his neighbor paying the costs of the prosecution .—Monthly Re¬ 
view. 
