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“ 4. That the temperature to which the liquid blood must be 
heated to produce a reliable vaccine is variable. 
“ 5. The same dose of vaccine may kill, protect or non-protect 
upon inoculating animals of the same size, under similar sur¬ 
roundings. 
“ 6. Virus so attenuated by heat and not carbolized may retain 
the properties of original vaccine for at least twenty-four days 
as far as disease-producing properties are concerned.” 
The Leonard Pearson Memorial Book has just been re¬ 
ceived from J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers, of Philadel¬ 
phia. There are a limited number of copies in the hands of the 
secretary, which can be obtained by addressing C. J. Marshall, 
Thirty-ninth Street and Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia. Price, 
cloth binding, $2; morocco binding, $3. 
One Hundred and Thirty-five American thoroughbreds 
exported to Australia last winter were recently sold by auction at 
Sydney for $89,455, an average of $662. St. Savin topped the 
sale at $15,000, but some of the brood mares did not bring 
enough to pay for their transportation.— (New York Herald). 
C. K. G. Billings is going to ride the trotters Charley 
Mitchell, 2.04%; Lewis Forrest, 2.06^, and Wilmering, 
2.12/4, under saddle in Russia this season, and he may drive 
Uhlan, 1.58^4, and Charley Mitchell to pole. The Billings horses 
are now safe in Moscow, and Mr. Billings is on his way there. 
He expects to return in time to see the Cleveland Grand Circuit 
meeting, beginning July 29.— {New York Herald). 
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New Breed of Pet Dog. —Professor Karl Pearson, Di¬ 
rector of the Laboratory for National Eugenics in the University 
of London, exhibited to his associated scientists in a conver¬ 
sazione at the Royal Society a new breed of dog which he calls 
“ pompek.” 
It is obtained by crossing Albino Pekingese spaniels with ‘ 
black Pomeranians. The offspring are mostly black. The new 
breed resulted from experiments in regard to hereditv.— (New 
York World). 
