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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Elmer E. Critchfield, western editor of the National 
Stockman and Favmev , has accepted the chair of Hygiene and 
Breeding at the McKillip Veterinary College. 
The various departments of Brooklyn are filled with veteri¬ 
narians. Why are not all of those of New York City so filled? 
Judiciary Committee, here is your chance. 
Dr. W. E. Williams, of Bozeman, Montana, visited Chicago 
on a flying trip and spent two hours at the Chicago Veterinary 
College in demonstrating that the horses of Montana recover 
from glanders. 
W. E. Rhoads, D.V.S., of Eandsdowne, Pa., the energetic 
secretary of the Keystone Veterinary M^edical Association, has 
in course of construction a large modern veterinary infirmary, 
necessitated by the requirements of his clientage. 
Prof. J. Hughes has been chosen representative of the Chi¬ 
cago Veterinary College to the coming meeting of the Associa¬ 
tion of Veterinary Faculties at Buffalo. The doctor will be 
welcomed as a new and influential member of this association. 
Dr. E- H. Howard, President of the Alumni Association of 
the A. V. C., has appointed the following members to act on the 
Executive Committee : Drs. W. H. Eowe, H. D. Hanson, E. B. 
Ackerman, J. F. Winchester, H. E. Holden, D. J. Dixon, J. B. 
Hopper. 
The Veterinary Medical Association of New York County 
held its last meeting till fall at the Academy of Medicine 
Tuesday, June 2d. The meetings in the fall will be held 
on the first Wednesday of each month instead of Tuesday, as 
heretofore. 
Glanders in Austral Africa.— According to researches 
made by Sander, a German physician, glanders had. not been 
observed in South Africa before 1864, since which time it has 
rapidly spread in the Cape colonies. The southwest is still 
free from it. 
Dr. Theobald Smith, formerly of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, Washington, D. C., has been elected by the 
Board of Overseers of Harvard University as professor of 
comparative pathology, a chair newly created by a gift of a Bos¬ 
ton citizen. 
