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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. Ross Cooper, of Blairsburg, Iowa, has recently been 
added to the force of veterinary inspectors of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry at Kansas City, Mo. 
The Spirit of the Times is out in a new dress, and w r e 
congratulate the publishers on the handsome appearance of “ the 
American Gentleman’s Newspaper.” 
The Judiciary Committee of the Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation of New York County are empowered to continue 
prosecutions both by criminal and civil suits. 
Col. Ed. Butler is authority for the statement that there 
are from 20 to 30 per cent, more horses in St. Louis now than 
there were in the palmiest days of the horse car. 
Prof. W. L. ZuiLL, of Philadelphia, has begun the practice 
of human medicine, and Dr. Junius H. Wattles, of Kansas City, 
Mo., is preparing himself for the same profession. 
Dr. W. H. Jackson, a graduate of Columbia Veterinary 
College, has, after fifteen years of practice in New York City, 
removed to his old home in Poughkeepsie, New Yor u 
The Commencement Exercises of the American Veteri- 
nary Colleo-e will be held at Chickering Hall, Fifth Avenue and 
Eighteenth Street, New York, Thursday evening, March 25* 
& Drs. H. D. Paxton, of Wilmington, Del., and S. G. Burk¬ 
holder, of Denver, Pa., have received appointments to the meat 
inspection service under the Bureau of Animal Industry, and 
been assigned to Chicago. 
Dr Jno. W. Adams, one of the editors of the Veterinary 
Magazine, has been elevated to the full professorship of veter¬ 
inary surgery and obstetrics by the Board of Trustees of the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
Do Not Forget that this is the last number of Volume 
XX and that subscriptions to the new volume are now due, 
and must be forwarded if you wish the monthly visits of the 
Review for the next year. 
Dr. Kerchner, of Eastern Pennsylvania, and Dr. Adams, 
of Northern Ohio, have recently been appointed inspectors of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, and assigned to duty in the 
Texas fever quarantine divisions, with headquarters at Kansas 
City. . 
A Veterinarian Studying Law. —A well-known Brook¬ 
lyn veterinarian, having become enamored of the profession of 
law, advertises on page 888 of this month’s Review his practice 
