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ment for the coming year. If thought best, my name can 
then give place to another, a full year before my presence on 
the board can be objected to on the ground advanced. If, on 
the contrary, the society should honor me with a second 
nomination, and if I should again be appointed for the year 
1896-97, I shall feel that my position is as unassailable as will 
be that of any of my practitioner coliegues. 
It is but just to say that even in the prospective future, 
should I live to teach in the new State Veterinary College, I 
shall have the happy consciousness of being absolutely re¬ 
moved from all connection with students’ tuition fees, which 
constitute, after all, a main source of temptation to the teacher. 
This element, with whatever there may be in it unfavorable 
to an unbiased judgment, will be as thoroughly removed from 
the teacher of the college as it is now from the faculty of the 
university. 
Pardon me for writing at this length, I have felt called 
upon to repudiate the undeserved impeachment, and I can 
not do this without reference to the facts of the case. We 
have in the past year accomplished much for the veterinary 
profession. Let us not now endanger the good secured by 
falling out among ourselves. The existing board of examiners 
may not be in every sense an ideal one, but they will do their 
duty to the best of their ability, and perhaps the first year’s 
experience may reconcile them to the thought of retirement. 
In one year not only can the personal element be altered, but 
by-laws, syllabus, questions and methods of marking can be 
changed radically and fundamentally, according to the views 
of the new incumbents, and the advancement of science. 
Respectfully, 
James Law. 
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The Death of a Man from Glanders. —On the 4th 
ult. there died at 1270 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn, a well- 
known builder named Joseph Hopkins, and the certificate . 
of death deposited with the Bureau of Vital Statistics of 
