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selves, to your clients, to your profession, and to your Alma 
Mater, but time forbids. 
In conclusion, therefore, gentlemen, on behalf of your 
teachers who, we trust, you will consider your lifelong friends, 
I say to you “ God-speedwe send you forth into a wide field 
of scientific usefulness, in which we trust some of you, at least, 
will become eminent and successful men, honored and respec¬ 
ted by your fellows and confreres. We will watch your 
progress as fathers do their children, and never forget that we 
look to you, who are the first University graduates of this 
Faculty, to uphold the reputation of your Faculty, and this 
great University, of which it forms a minor part. 
In the name of the Faculty, 1 beg to tender our thanks to 
the Provincial Government for their liberality in continuing 
to give us the annual grant, and to the Hon. Acting Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, for taking the trouble to honor us with 
his presence to-day; to those gentlemen who constitute the 
Board of Examiners, who have traveled long distances in 
order to assist us, and to this great assembly, for your patience 
in listening to these remarks. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE INSPECTION OF MEAT AND MILK WITH SPECIAL REFER¬ 
ENCE TO TUBERCULOSIS.* 
By A. W. Clement, Y.S., of Baltimore. 
{Continued from 'page 86.) 
At the meeting of the International Veterinary Congress 
held at Paris in September, 1889 , under the presidency of M. 
Chauveau, after thorough discussion of the question of meat 
inspection, the following conclusions were reached. 
“ 1 .—The consumption by men and animals of meat from 
tuberculous animals should be prohibited, whatever may be 
the extent of the tuberculosis, and whatever may be the ap¬ 
parent quality of the meat. 
♦Read at a special meeting of the Maryland State Veterinary Medical So¬ 
ciety, January 23, 1890. 
