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mal. The spleen was enlarged to twice its natural size. The 
capsule was thickened, infiltrated with blood, stretched, and 
strongly adherent to the abdominal wall. The pulp was dark 
red, of soft, pulpy consistency; it welled forth on cutting in 
the form of a dark-brown pulp. In the spleen a blood ex¬ 
travasation the size of a pea was found.— Schweiz. Arch. Thlk. 
MEAT INSPECTION IN BERLIN. 
Ill the public slaughter houses of the central abattoir, 
there were 9,212 cattle, 13,061 calves, 30,515 sheep, 49>7 8 5 
swine killed in Berlin during the month of April. Altogether 
102,573 animals, as against 108,702 in April 1893, a decrease of 
6,129; 2 >59 8 cattle and 7,824 sheep less, 1,417 calves and 2,876 
swine more in April, 1895, than in April, 1893. Of this number 
552 were condemned as unfit for human consumption; this 
number includes 231 cattle, 35 calves, 5 sheep, and 281 swine. 
The number of individual parts and organs condemned 
amounted to 7,661 (of these 2,944 from cattle, 22 from calves, 
1,184 from sheep, 3,511 from swine); among this number were 
1,434 lungs and 860 livers. In the city stations for the inspec¬ 
tion of imported fresh meat 16,463 quarters of beef, 15,401 
calves, 3,347 sheep and 11,715 swine were registered. Of 
these 63 quarters of beef, 37 calves, 10 sheep, 17 swine, 38 
organs and parts were condemned .—Thierarzt Woch. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY 
MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
At the special meeting of the New York State Veterinary 
Medical Society, held in the lecture room of the New York 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, New York City, on June 11 th, 
1895, the roll call showed a large number of veterinary sur¬ 
geons present. The reading of the minutes of the previous 
meeting was dispensed with. The President, Dr. R. S. Huide- 
koper, explained in a few remarks the reason for calling this 
special meeting. He said that it was in order to compty with 
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