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surgery in charge of Prof. W. L. Williams, of Ithaca, N. Y., 
one on sanitary science and police in charge of Dr. Charles H. 
Higgins, Ottawa, Canada, one on general practice in charge of 
Prof. H. D. Gill, of New York City. “ Das Deutsche Haus ” 
seems to lend itself to the sectional plan, having plenty of meet¬ 
ing rooms convenient to each other. The idea is to devote the 
forenoons and evenings to association work, leaving the after¬ 
noons of each day during the week for section work. All phases 
of veterinary science will be represented in the programme en¬ 
acted, and general practice will be one of the strong features. 
Mr. Geo. L. Flanders, First Deputy Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture, State of New York, under ex-Commissioner Pearson, 
was appointed Counsel to the Department of Agriculture, April 
2, 1912, by Commissioner Calvin J. Huson, and Mr. Harry B. 
Winters, President of the New York State Plant Breeders Asso¬ 
ciation, Treasurer of the New York State Agricultural Society 
and director of the Certified Milk Producers’ Association of 
America, was appointed to succeed Mr. Flanders as First Assist¬ 
ant Commissioner. 
Biological Products, is the title of a paper read before the 
Canadian Public Health •Association at Montreal, in December 
last, by Chas. H. Higgins, D. V. S., F. R. M. S., pathologist to 
the Canadian Department of Agriculture; and published in the 
Public Health Journal , Toronto, Canada, It has been our privi¬ 
lege to peruse a reprint of . this paper, which deals with the evo¬ 
lution, as it were, of biological therapeutics, methods of their 
preparation, etc., in which the doctor refers to' the large variety 
of these preparations, some of which, he states, “have secured an 
enviable reputation in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of 
disease; many are undergoing the evolutionary period, a few of 
which will eventually be discarded, while others have been wholly 
unable to survive the vicissitudes o>f either practical or theoretical 
experimentation.” We believe that this applies to both human 
and veterinary medicine, and shall publish Dr. Higgins’ paper in 
our next number, believing that it will be a material aid to prac¬ 
titioners, in their efforts to gain a dearer and saner conception of 
the practical application and value of that side of medicine. 
