gious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle from the United States. 2. The study and con- 
irol of Texas fever. 3. The establishment of the Federal meat inspection serv- 
ice. 4. The establishment of the inspection of exported animals, and the ships 
carrying them, thus doing away with the cruel treatment and suffering which 
had been a startling feature of this traffic, reducing the losses and preserving 
the trade. 5. The preservation of the country from imported diseases by per 
fecting the system of inspecting and quarantining imported animals. 6. The 
scientific investigation of animal diseases, and their bearing upon public health 
questions. 
Dr. Salmon is an honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Su:- 
geons of Great Britain; Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 
ineut of Science; chairman of the committee on animal diseases and animal 
food of the American Public Health Association; ex-president and member of 
the executive committee of the American Veterinary Medical Association; mem- 
ber of the Washington Academy of Sciences, and of various other bodies de- 
voted to medical and general science. 
ALONZO Dorus MELVIN, Assistant Chief of the Bureau, was born Oct. 28, 1862, at 
Sterling, Ill.; attended school and business college at that place; spent portions 
of four years on a stock farm, and was employed by his father in a store for two 
years; acquired veterinary education at Chicago Veterinary College, graduating 
with degree of D. V. S. in April, 1886; was engaged with preceptor six months 
before and while attending college, and in general practice from time of gradua- 
tion until entering the Bureau service, and also occupied position of assistant 
State veterinarian of Illinois at that time; was appointed in the Bureau Dec. 10, 
[886, and first stationed at Chicago and employed in the work of extirpation of 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle; in October, 1887, was transferred to Bal- 
timore and assigned to same work; in April, 1890, was transferred to Chicago, 
his duties consisting of the supervision of southern cattle transportation and 
inspection of actinomycotic cattle; was sent to England in July, 1890, and sta- 
tioned at Liverpool, for the purpose of inspecting and reporting on the condi- 
tion of animals, and vessels carrying same, from the United States, and while 
stationed there was sent to investigate a shipment of cattle to Hamburg, Ger- 
many; in April, 1892, was returned to Chicago and placed in charge of meat in- 
spection at that station; on Aug. 1, 1895, was transferred to Washington and pro- 
moted to Chief of the Inspection Division: on April 9, 1898, was appointed by the 
U.S. Civil Service Commission a member auxiliary of the promotion board for 
the Department of Agriculture to represent the Bureau of Animal Industry; on 
Jan. 1, 1899, was promoted to his present position of Assistant Chief of the 
Bureau. 
Syivester R. Buren, Chief Clerk of the Bureau, was born March 1, 1842, on a 
farm near Dresden, Ohio; he with his parents emigrated to Linn Co., Iowa, in 
the spring of 1858, where he worked on a farm in the summer months and at- 
tended school during the winter; taught a country school in the summer of 1861: 
in October, 1861, enlisted as a private soldier in Co. D, 12th Iowa Vol. Inf.: after 
serving two years re-enlisted in same company and regiment as a veteran and 
was promoted to corporal, sergeant-major and adjutant respectively; was de- 
tailed as an aide-de-camp on Major-General A. L. Chetlam’s staff, and for the 
last six months of his service was acting assistant adjutant general on same 
staff; was mustered out of service Jan. 23, 1866; participated in the principal 
battles of the Armies of the Cumberland and Tennessee under Generals U. 8. 
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and A. J. Smith; was made a prisoner of war with his 
regiment at Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862, after a hard day’s fight, the position oc- 
cupied being dubbed by the enemy “the Hornets’ Nest’; returned to Linn Co., 
Iowa, when mustered out of the service, and resumed farming in the summer and 
teaching school in the winter; emigrated from Iowa to Olathe, Kans., in the fall 
of 1868, and engaged in the hotel business: was elected a member of the city 
council for four successive years; was then elected member of the school board 
and was made president of same for six years; was elected mayor of the city 
for two term; for seven years was postmaster at Olathe: for ten years was cap- 
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