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of that disease; the establishment of the federal meat inspection 

 service; and many important investigations into the nature of 

 several serious infectious maladies of animals. 



As Chief of the Bureau, Dr. Salmon stood firm against polit- 

 ical interference with research and other scientific work. He 

 was equally careful to protect the breeders and those engaged 

 in animal traffic. To him, more than to any other, we are 

 indebted for an efficient organization to combat animal plagues 

 and a meat inspection service which has protected our commerce 

 in animal products and safeguarded the people against the dis- 

 eases communicable to them through dumb creation. In these 

 protections our country is not excelled. 



In 1906 Dr. Salmon was placed in charge of the veterinary 

 department of the University of Montevideo in Uraguay at a 

 salary far in excess of that offered by our own Government. For 

 five years he remained in this country, but due to climatic diffi- 

 culties he returned to the United States, giving his attention 

 during the closing months of his life to the preparation of hog 

 cholera virus. He failed rapidly, however, and died at Butte, 

 Mont., August 30, 1914. 



Dr. Salmon was an Honorary Associate of the Royal College 

 of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain; a Fellow of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science; chairman of 

 the committee on animal diseases and animal food of the Ameri- 

 can Public Health Association, president and member of the 

 executive committee of the American Veterinary Association, and 

 an active worker in the Washington Academy of Science. 



Dr. Salmon was a prominent vrriter on veterinary subjects, 

 especially those pertaining to the infectious diseases. Many of 



