NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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The Keystone Veterinary Medicae Association has 
endorsed the bill to require the registration of master and jour¬ 
neymen horse-shoers, and the bill will be introduced at the next 
session of the Pennsylvania legislature. 
Finlay Dun, F. R. C. V. S., author of the well-known text¬ 
book on veterinary materia medica, has been appointed an ex¬ 
aminer on veterinary hygiene in the Edinburgh University for 
four years, succeeding Prof. W. O. Williams, whose term has ex¬ 
pired. 
“ Charbon or Anthrax ” is the subject of Bulletin No. 
44, being the experiences with recent outbreaks of the disease 
in North Louisiana by S. B. Staples, D.V.S., and W. H. Dal- 
rymple, M.R.C.V.S., and issued by the Louisiana State Experi¬ 
ment Stations. 
The American Horse Exchange, New York City, re¬ 
cently rebuilt on the site of the original building, which’was 
burned last year, was opened for business on Jan. 15. It has 350 
stalls and boxes and seating capacity for 1200 persons, and 
special sales will be held of horses, cattle and dogs. 
Hog Cholera in Missouri. —The Breeders' Gazette says : 
“ An epidemic of cholera, extending over a whole scope of terri¬ 
tory in Western Illinois and Northwestern Missouri, is carryino- 
off hogs by hundreds and thousands. Many farmers have lost 
entire droves. This information comes from Warsaw Hancock 
County.” 
The Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College at Amherst, has reprinted for general dis¬ 
tribution the excellent article by Prof. Bang, of Copenhagen 
entitled “ The Application of Tuberculin in the Suppression of 
Bovine Tuberculosis,” from the Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir Thier 
Me diem. 
Prof. Edwin Willets, A. M., LL. D., whose death was 
announced in the January Review, was stated to have been the 
lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the United States Colleo- e 
of Veterinary Surgeons, Washington, D. C. We have been 
apprised of our error in this statement, and informed that the 
deceased had occupied that chair in the National Veterinary 
College, recently merged into the Columbian University. Al¬ 
though not a veterinarian, the deceased was a devoted friend to 
the profession. 
Veterinarians Becoming M. Ds.— On account of the oreat 
depression in the equine industry, especially in the Western 
