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lings remain. In the paralysis of the seventh pair, all motions 
are removed, hat the sensibility remains. 
[To be Continued .] 
EDITORIAL. 
UNITED STA TES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
In a few weeks the anniversary and annual meeting of the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association will take place at 
its ordinary place of meeting, the American Veterinary College', 
in New York city. 
This is an occasion always looked for by the numerous mem¬ 
bers of the Association, and though the gentlemen who belong 
to it are pretty well scattered all over the country, they always 
manage to be present, and to arrange their business so as to come 
and meet some friends and colleagues; others, friends, colleagues 
and alumni of the same school. 
As the number of members has been yearly increasing, es¬ 
pecially for the past few years, the next meeting will in all proba 
bility prove one of the largest gatherings of veterinarians on this 
continent, even larger than the one which took place two years 
ago in Philadelphia, on the occasion of the centennial festivals. 
It is to be hoped, however, that the transactions which will 
take place at that meeting will be sufficiently interesting to repay 
for their trouble those who have to come a long journey to attend 
it, and that the officers of the Association have succeeded in 
obtaining from members interesting papers to be read and dis¬ 
cussed on that occasion. 
By a resolution passed some time ago, two prizes are offered 
for the best papers on subjects pertaining to veterinary medicine. 
This ought to be well-known by the members, and ought to be a 
stimulus for many of them. The Association counts a number 
of young men recently graduated, and they ought not to remain 
satisfied with their graduation and take a back seat, thus resting 
