INTERESTING PROFESSIONAL ITEMS. 
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We are pleased to note the convalescence of our esteemed 
friend and fellow worker, Dr. John W. Gadsden, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., who has just undergone a second painful and seri¬ 
ous operation. # 
Professor D. McEachran, of Montreal, Canada, is booked 
to sail for England this month, and we have no doubt that 
the recent action of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association in demanding the removal of the embargo against 
American and Candian cattle will not be lost sight of during 
his stay abroad. 
In this connection we also note the resignation of Profes¬ 
sor G. T. Brown, C.D., chief veterinary officer of the 
Veterinary Department of the Board of Agriculture of Great 
Britain. It will be recalled that Professor Brown is the 
authority who officially declared that the United States were 
sending to England cases of “ C. P. P.” Professor Brown has 
been connected for twenty-eight years with the Department 
• of Agriculture, and for the last two years has been chief of 
the same. 
We note with pleasure the publication in the English 
veterinary journals of warm comments upon the work of the 
recent Veterinary Congress of America. We also note the 
same veterinary journals have taken cognizance of the reso¬ 
lutions adopted by the Congress on the subject of “ Conta¬ 
gious Pleuro-Pneumonia.” 
A veterinary college on the Chautauqua plan has blos¬ 
somed forth in the wild and woolly west. In the language of 
Billings, “ what next ’’? 
Some eleven animals were destroyed at Trenton last week, 
all of which had been tested by tuberculin last September, 
but had failed to react, they being the balance of the herd of 
thirty, nineteen of which had shown a reaction, and were de¬ 
stroyed, all of which proved tuberculous. Of the eleven just 
destroyed, but one showed any tubercular lesions whatever, 
and these were some very small tubercles and undoubtedly 
of very recent origin. The proof grows stronger every day 
