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to accept this dual view. When Dr. Dorset (30) discovered the 

 filterable virus that is now recognized as the cause of the disease, 

 Dr. Detmers was vindicated in regard to the identity of the two 

 diseases, even though his belief as to the cause had to be dis- 

 carded. 



The tenacity, vrith which Dr. Detmers clung to his explana- 

 tion of his discovery, was a fair measure of his character. He 

 knew that he was right, as far as his experience went, and he 

 defended his position to the best of his ability against both friend 

 and foe, and he encountered both. As a matter of fact Dr. Det- 

 mers knew only two kinds of people, friends or foes, and with 

 each class he went to the limit. For his friends he knew no sac- 

 rifice too great, for his foes no resistance too strong. 



On completing his work with the Federal Government he was 

 successively professor of veterinary science at the Iowa Agri- 

 cultural College, The University of Missouri, The Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, and the University of Illinois. In 1884 

 he was called to the Ohio State University where he founded the 

 college of veterinary medicine. At the same time he acted as 

 veterinarian of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster, and 

 there labored without relief on a system of protective innocula- 

 tion against the swine plague. In all of his activities during his 

 long public life as a teacher, and his retired life as an investi- 

 gator, he worked unceasingly for the development of his chosen 

 profession. His former students were all his personal friends 

 in whom he took a fraternal interest and a personal pride. In 

 November, 1906, at the age of seventy-one years, he passed away 

 at Columbus, Ohio. Very few of the veterinarians and agricul- 

 turists of today were acquainted with Dr. Detmers, but those 

 who possess this privilege need no further appreciation of his 

 worth and quality. 



