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enjoy the luxuries of the court-room and draw his stipend in the 
bargain. 
The New York County Association at its last meeting 
appointed a committee to communicate with the Board of Health 
of the city and State of New York, and to investigate the value 
given by law to the inoculation of glanders by mallein and the 
extent of authority of the Health Boards in the quarantining 
and condemning of suspicious cases of glanders. 
At the Brooklyn Horse Show, held the 4th, 5th, 6th, 
7th, 8th and 9th of May, the lack of veterinary examination of 
the^ntries was clearly shown, as in one or two instances lame 
horses were awarded prizes over sound ones, and the judges in 
one case rejected a very valuable road team for u curby hocks,” 
which the owner very promptly proved incorrect by certificates 
of well-known members of the profession. 
Dr. Wm. V. Lusk, veterinary surgeon to the Second U. S. 
Cavalry, stationed at Fort Wingate, N. M., will enjoy a furlough 
through June and July at Ashtabula, Ohio. The doctor is a 
frequent contributor to the practical writings of the Review, 
and his cases are always interesting. We trust some of his 
leisure moments may be utilized to good account by recording 
some of the cases from his note-book for the benefit of Review 
readers. 
Grunting in Horses.— A circular letter was sent by the 
Lincolnshire Veterinary Medical Association to the Southern 
Counties Veterinary Medical Association (England) asking a 
o-eneral expression of opinion of the members upon the above 
subieet, and after a liberal discussion, it was decided that a reply 
he sent as follows: “That in the opinion of this meeting, 
t 5,^horses does not necessarily constitute unsound¬ 
ness.” 
Dr. A. W. Clement, of Baltimore, has recently been ap¬ 
pointed State Veterinarian of Maryland, and too much cannot 
be said for the wisdom of the appointive power in having se¬ 
lected this scholarly and enthusiastic member of the profession 
for that position. His former connection with the federal control 
of contagious diseases, his natural bent for investigation, all tend 
to make him peculiarly fitted for his new position, and we are 
sure the profession and the country will be large gainers through 
his accession. 
The Modern Horse Show is doing more to encourage and 
popularize the well-bred pleasure horse than any other aggrega- 
