CORRESPONDENCE. 
TOT 
ALLUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
Members of the Alumni Association of the American 
Veterinary College, who expect to attend the Annual Ban¬ 
quet, which will take place on the evening of March 24th, 
1892, will please notify the Secretary of the Association, in 
order that he may determine how many covers it will be 
necessary to provide for. 
Notice of place and hour will appear in the next number 
of the Review. 
E. B. Ackerman, D.V.S., Secy, 
141 West 54th Street, N. Y. City. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LIVE AND LET LIVE. 
Mr. Editor : 
Your correspondent’s inquiry—Are employees of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry allowed to engage in private 
practice?—surely interested a great many readers of the De¬ 
cember number of the Review. I am practicing in a locality 
where anything in the shape of private practice by the Bu¬ 
reau’s representative would be satisfactory, but there is no 
privacy or delicacy about it; the humble, hard-working D. V.S. 
is assailed on every side with such titles as United States 
Veterinary Inspector, United States Veterinarian, State In¬ 
spector Veterinarian, United States Inspector of Veteri¬ 
narians; and Veterinarian to the President of the United 
States, I expect, will come next. Now this sort of brass-band 
parading of titles by political charges will never harm any 
intelligent practitioner as a rule, but there are, perhaps, nu¬ 
merous instances where a veterinarian of education and pro¬ 
fessional ability represents the Bureau, and if he is disposed 
to work the public with the above titles, then beware, Non 
Nobis Solum, for one is then in danger of being snowed un¬ 
der. Does the Bureau permit it, you ask? Yes, apparently ; 
