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2d question. Messrs. Leblanc, of Paris; Neiman, of St. 
Petersburg; Reraartinez, of Madrid; Roll, of Vienna; Thomas- 
sen, of Utrecht. 
3 d question. Messrs. Cope, of London; Delamotte, of Vin- 
. cennes; Potterat, of Berne. 
4 th question. Messrs. Baillet, of Bordeaux ; Muller, of Ber¬ 
lin; Van Hersten, of Brussels. 
5th question. Messrs. Butel, of Meaux ; Degive, of Brussels ; 
Robinson, of Greenock. 
Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association. —The sixth 
annual meeting of this Association was held on the 16th and 17th 
of November at Chicago, the order of business having been so 
arranged as to occupy two days in the discussion and disposition ’ 
of the subjects selected for consideration. Judging from the in¬ 
dications presented by the programme, with which through the 
kindness of the President and Secretary we have been furnished, 
the meeting must have been one of great interest to those who 
were so fortunate as to be present. The papers presented on the 
first day were : “An unusual sequel of tracheotomy”; “Erysipe¬ 
las in horses and a pecular suppurative affection of the external 
lymphatics of cattle.” The second day was occupied with papers 
on the “ Uses of veratrum viride in veterinary practice”; “Par¬ 
enchymatous degeneration of the kidney ” ; “ Physiology of the 
spinal cord ”; “ Equine syphilis,” by Dr. W. L. Williams. “Equine 
syphilis, with its importance to horse breeders, and the means of 
control,” by Dr. Casewell; and a report of the autopsy on a mare 
'affected with syphilis. 
This Association means good work and, so far as we are able 
to judge, it offers an example to other State Associations, which 
some of them would do well to emulate. 
We earnestly tender to the Illinois State Veterinary Medical 
Association our best wishes for its prosperity, and hope that its 
annual and other meetings may always be attended with a degree 
of interest and profit in future at least equal to that with which 
that of the present year has been characterized. 
Surdity in Horses. —We received, some time since, an in¬ 
quiry from one of our readers, which, although we were unable 
