CORRESPONDENCE-OBITUARY 
297 
CORRESPONDENCE, 
DR. SCHWARZKOPF TO DR. SALMON. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir.— Dr. Salmon’s latest on meat inspection in 
your May issue is so saturated with official self-confidence, 
and his language so much wanting of literary decency, that I 
must decline to further discuss this subject. Whenever the 
1 Doctor loses his temper, he goes to juggling with terrifying 
words and beating the drum. This is, I suppose, what he 
means by his “rather pointed replies which he has found it 
inecessary Irom time to time to offer.” Sure enough, the Doc- 
dor is renowned the two continents over for his “pointed re¬ 
plies, which are so full of amusing bluffness, and so lacking 
in objective clearness. 
While I shall gladly leave the Doctor in full possession of 
his ideas on meat inspection, I must object to his flimsy attempt 
to stamp myself and my opinions as “foreign.’’ True, I am a 
(German by birth and education, and I offer no apology for 
this fact. But the country of the buffalo, the Indian and the 
other civilized Americans has been the land of my dreams 
since my youth. Circumstances have so shaped my life that 
!I have become an American not only by consent of law, but 
also in spirit and sentiment. I also believe in patriotism, but 
1 have no use for that fanaticism which employs race-preju¬ 
dice as an argument in professional discussions. Furthermore, 
I believe that the pages of The Review are for our American 
veterinarians, and that Dr. Salmon’s fear that “people in other 
countries will read them,” has some pathological condition 
it its bottom. Olof Schwarzkopf. 
OBITUARY. 
DR. WILLIAMSON BRYDEN. 
This well and favorably known Veterinarian of Boston 
lied there on June 28th after an illness of about thirteen 
nonths, the immediate cause of death being apoplexy. Dr. 
Bryden was born in Scotland and came to this country when 
