REPOET OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
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the dose of course depending on the age and condition of the 
animal; this again followed by the iron and vegetable tonics, 
where debility is great. Good, nutritious food in abundanca 
and pure water are essential, as is also shelter from the ex¬ 
treme cold. After an animal becomes so much emaciated as 
to be unable to stand, only the most careful nursing will in¬ 
sure recovery. 
The geographical distribution of this parasite is not yet 
known, as so little has been written upon the subject. I am 
informed by Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, after sending him some specimens of the worms found 
in Case I, which he pronounced as given above (sclerostoma 
tetracanthump that the Bureau has had quite a number of 
cases of them reported from Minnesota and Illinois. To what 
extent they exist in Iowa I shall hope to determine from the 
discussion of this paper. 
REPORT OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
By W. Horace Hoskins, Chairman. 
(Read at the United States Veterinary Medical Association.) 
• 
As Chairman of your Publication Committee in offering 
you this brief report, it comes with an apology that you have 
not enjoyed the past year a complete reprint of our proceed¬ 
ings at Washington, as you did of the one at Chicago. The 
unfortunate condition in which you left matters at Washing¬ 
ton, though appealed to leave the whole matter of this work in 
the hands of your Committee, which went unheeded, ended 
just as might be expected—in untold chaos, unending dissatis- 
faction_and from that time to this there never has been at any 
one time in your Committee’s hands the entire list of papers, 
reports, etc. that were read and considered there. Until some 
three months ago I was only able to get together the large 
part of this matter, and a publisher’s estimate of the cost at 
that late day of about $250.00 for five hundred copies seemed 
an unwise expenditure at this time. On the various pretexts 
and claims, one paper and another were taken away, or failed 
