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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Drs. R. H. Harrison, T. J. Turner and F. W. Hopkins, 
graduates of the A.V.C., are members of the teaching staff in the 
Kansas City Veterinary College. 
E. N. Heavy, D.V.S., graduate of the A.V.C., class of ’96, 
has become a canine specialist, with an infirmary at Lexington 
Avenue and 61st Street, New York City. 
Why should a man who writes D.V.S. after his name, regis¬ 
ter by affidavit ? Does he assume the title ? If so, should it be ? 
Judiciary Committee, will you please answer? 
Dr. T. J. Turner, ex-State Veterinarian of Missouri, has 
accepted an appointment in the meat inspection service of Bureau 
of Animal Industry and is stationed at Kansas City. 
John S. BuckuEy, D.V.S., gold-medalist at the last exam¬ 
ination of the American Veterinary College, has been selected 
by the Maryland Agricultural College as instructor in veterinary 
medicine. 
Probabry the most common mode of infection by glanders 
is by means of the drinking water. Veterinarians can do much to 
lessen the spread by seeing that the troughs in stables, etc., be 
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected in the proper way. 
The Missouri Vaeuey Veterinary Medicae Associa¬ 
tion, by unanimous vote, directed its delegates to the 
U.S.V.M.A., at Buffalo, to extend to the parent association an 
urgent and cordial invitation to hold the 1897 meeting at Kan¬ 
sas City. 
Ladies at Buefaeo. —It is expected that large numbers of 
the fair sex will visit the Queen City of the Lakes and Niagara 
Falls on the occasion of the Buffalo meeting of the three veteri¬ 
nary associations, accompanying their husbands, fathers, or 
brothers, as the case may be. 
H. D. GiRR, V.S., dean of the New York College of Veter¬ 
inary Surgeons, has passed the civil service examination of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, and has been directed to report at 
Chicago. We can scarcely see how the doctor can afford to re¬ 
linquish his many duties and associations in the Metropolis to 
fill an official position in the Windy City. 
J. Ermer Ryder, D.V.S., who was so unfortunate at the re¬ 
cent fire at the American Horse Exchange as to lose his valuable 
collection of instruments and many other paraphernalia of a 
well-appointed office, is now located on the same block, and is 
beginning to become reconciled to his hard fortune, in which 
his colleagues have felt the greatest sympathy. 
