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COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
It is with pleasure that we give Mr. Murray full acknowledg¬ 
ment of our oversight. Hoare’s book is published in America 
by his house. - 
MALARIAL POISONING, OR SIOW FEVER. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Since my article on Malarial Poisoning (slow fever), I re¬ 
ceived a letter from Dr. G. A. Johnson, Sioux City, Iowa, in 
'reference to the bottom disease of the Missouri bottom, and 
that it is of a miasmatic nature, and so serious that most veteri¬ 
narians and horse owners have come to the conclusion that it 
very seldom pays to treat a case. Dr. Johnson has come to the 
conclusion that bottom disease is a cirrhosis of the liver due to 
miasmatic poisoning, and that the disease as seen in horses quite 
closely resembles malarial cirrhosis of the liver in man. With 
this letter from Dr. Johnson I received a copy of a report of this 
disease, by Dr. Fairchild, which I think ought to be sent to the 
American Veterinary Review for publication. It is the 
first article of its kind I ever read, and is very interesting. Dr. 
P'airchild is Professor of Therapeutics and Pathololy in the State 
Agricuitural College ot Iowa, and I should like to see the pub¬ 
lication of the report in the REVIEW for the benefit of the pro¬ 
fession. Possibly the editor knows of Dr. Fairchild, and could 
get his permission to publish it. 
Yours truly, 
Centreville, Queen Ann Co., H. S. ADAMS, V.S. 
Maryland. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The closing exercises of the twentieth session of this insti¬ 
tution were held on March 25, 1895, at Chickering Hall, with 
the usual display of flowers, music and so forth that are pre¬ 
sented at such meetings. 
The conferring of diplomas was carried out by Dr. F. D. 
Weisse, President of the Board of Trustees. The illness of 
