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VETERINARY COLLEGE ITEMS-GLANDERS. 
VETERINARY COLLEGE ITEMS. 
American Veterinary College. —The requirements of tlie 
dissecting room of this institution have assumed such proportions 
that the creation of the position of Assistant Demonstrator of 
Anatomy has become a necessity. Applications for this position 
for the coming session may be made at once, to the Dean, and 
will be received up to the first of June. 
Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. —We take the following paragraph from one of the 
Philadelphia papers : 
Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, Dean of the Veterinary Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, and who organized that department in 1883, has 
announced his intention of resigning his position and removing to another city, 
probablp New York. Dr. Huidekoper is well known in medical and veterinarian 
circles, having made an enviable record in both fields. 
American Veterinary College. —The examinations for 
graduation will begin February 18tli, and the commencement ex¬ 
ercises of the session 1888-89 take place at Chickering Hall on 
Friday, March 1st, at 8 o’clock p.m. 
GLANDERS. 
The following letter upon the subject of glanders as an infec¬ 
tious disease and the propriety of killing animals suffering from 
said disease or farcy, as soon as recognized, is published for the 
information and guidance of the U. S. Army. 
Baltimore, July 24, 1888. 
To the Quartermaster-General , V. S. Army , Washington , D. C. 
General: In reply to your communication of July 19th, I 
have the honor to submit the following statements and opinions : 
Glanders is an infectious disease in which the infectious agent 
has been demonstrated to be a living micro-organism—a bacillus. 
The bacillus of glanders was discovered by the German bac¬ 
teriologists, Loffler and Shutz, in 1882, and the discovery has 
