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EDITORIAL. 
tendency to prove that anthrax was not due to the presence of the 
bacteria. 
We take advantage of the articles found in our exchanges upon 
this question to present our readers with the result of the experiments 
of both Messrs. Bert and Pasteur. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
I he Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of this Association will take 
place on the third Tuesday of this month, the 18th inst., and will be 
held at the American Veterinary College. These annual gatherings 
have been always well attended, and as some important actions relating 
to Veterinary education, and other matters connected with the profes¬ 
sion will be discussed, there is no doubt that a good number of the mem¬ 
bers of the Association will meet together on that day. We hear of a* 
project being started for the formation of an Alumni Society of the 
American Y eterinary College. This would be a good opportunity to lay 
its foundation. The first of its kind on this continent, much good 
might be derived from it socially and professionally. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
By A. Liautard, M. D. V. S. 
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ON THE IDENTITY OF ANTHRAX IN ALL THE SPECIES OF 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
By M. H. Bouuey, Member of the Institute, Etc.* 
I ask of the Academy the permission to present in this paper, on 
some points, the character of the anthrax fever of domestic animals, so 
as to show that this popular name, preserved in science because it is the 
expression of a physical fact, very characteristic and constant—the 
deep, dark coloration of the blood-this name, I say, applies not only 
to a number of different diseases, collected under a common name, but 
to a single disease, identical to itself in all the species, and already well 
identified by clinical observation. 
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Extract from the Minutes of the Academie des Sciences, of Paris, May 7 th, I87U 
