EDITORIAL. 
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Tlie article we have referred to, we are inclined to believe, was 
written in connection with the action of the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association at its last meeting, by which a com¬ 
mittee was appointed to draw a set of resolutions to be presented 
to Congress, urging the necessity for measures to be taken in rela¬ 
tion to contagious diseases of domestic animals. 
According to the appointment of said committee and the 
power granted to it, the following gentlemen met in New York on 
the lltli of November, viz.: Prof. A. Liautard, M.D., of New 
York; Prof. A. A. Holcombe, of New York; 0. B. Michener, 
of Pennsylvania; E. F. Thayer, of Massachusetts—members of 
the committee, and, by special invitation, Prof. James Law, of 
Ithica, N. Y.; A. Lockhart, of New York; C. P. Lyman, of 
Massachusetts, and Prof. J. L. Robertson, M.D., of New York. 
Dr. N. H. Parren, of Chicago ; W. T. Corlies, of New Jersey. 
F. S. Billings, of Massachusetts, and J. B. Myers, of Cincinnati, 
were unable to attend, but some of them at least notified their 
willingness to endorse any action the committee should see fit to 
recommend. 
The object of the meeting and how the Sanitary Veterinary 
Bureau should be constituted, were first discussed. After many re¬ 
marks from the different members present, it was decided that it 
would be better to suggest an independent organization, rather 
than to have it connected with the Agricultural Department at 
Washington, or with the National Board of Health, and after the 
appointment of a sub-committee for the drawing of the resolu¬ 
tions, the following were unanimously accepted at a subsequent 
meeting held on the 25th of November : 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
Petition, 
Presented by the United States Veterinary Medical Association. 
To the Honorable , the Congress of the United States : 
Whereas , It has been shown that different animal plagues pre¬ 
vail to a disastrous extent among the live stock of the United 
