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former communication as well as this one, I have, with less 
cause, been much more “ courteous ” and u charitable ” to 
Doctors Merillat and Dr. Young than they were to the operator 
at the Omaha Clinic. Tait Butler. 
OBITUARY. 
ALBERT W. CLEMENT, D.V.S. 
Albert W. Clement, of Baltimore, Md., who was State 
Veterinarian during Governor Lowndes administration, died of a 
complication of diseases, Sunday, March 3, at the Johns Hop¬ 
kins Hospital. He had been ill about five weeks. Dr. Cle¬ 
ment was born in Lawrence, Mass., in 1857, where he received 
his early education in the public schools. He then spent two 
years at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., where he took a 
special preliminary medical course. In' 1879 he went to McGill 
University, at Montreal, Canada, where he graduated from the 
veterinary department in 1882. He remained there the follow¬ 
ing three years as a teacher. He was also employed during that 
time by the Canadian Government in investigating contagious 
diseases in animals and in the inspection of export cattle. In 
1885 he went to Europe and remained for two years, studying 
at the London and Berlin veterinary schools, the Koch and 
Virchow laboratories at Berlin, the Pasteur Laboratory at Paris 
and the veterinary school at Alfort. He returned to Montreal 
in 1887, and shortly afterward went to Baltimore. For six 
years he pursued investigations in pleuro-pneumonia and scien¬ 
tific research, conducted at the Johns Hopkins Hospital labora¬ 
tory. He was also connected with the United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry. 
He was a member of the Maryland Club, the flag of which 
was placed at half-mast in his memory ; Elk Ridge Fox Hunt¬ 
ing Club, Pimlico Driving Club and the American Veterinary 
Medical Association, of which he was formerly president. Dr. 
Clement is survived by a widow and a brother , Mr. George H. 
Clement, of the United States Treasury Department in Wash¬ 
ington. 
At a special meeting of the Maryland State Veterinary 
Medical Society, held on the evening of March 7, 1901, the fol¬ 
lowing resolutions were adopted : 
Whereas, The untiring zeal and energy of our lately deceased as¬ 
sociate and friend, Dr. Albert W. Clement, as pertaining to professional 
