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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. A. G. Hopkins has resigned his position at the Univer 
sity of Wisconsin to accept a position upon the Farmer's Advo¬ 
cate, an ‘excellent agricultural paper published at Winnipeg, 
Manitoba. His first article appeared in the Christinas number, 
and was entitled ‘‘Nineteenth Century Progress in Veterinary 
Science.” 
At the final examinations of the New York-American Vet¬ 
erinary College, held the last of March, the following gentle¬ 
men were recommended to the Council of New York University 
for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery : Messrs. Bose, 
Johnson, Jones, Morris, Miller, Serling, Werner, and Wert¬ 
heimer. 
Dr. J. F. Winchester, of Lawrence, Mass., reported an in¬ 
teresting circumstance at the banquet of the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion of the Veterinary Department of New York University. 
Having a cat brought to him he diagnosed tuberculosis, which 
was verified by laboratory examination. Another cat, owned 
by the same lady, was found to be suffering from the same 
disease. It transpired that the two felines had probably con¬ 
tracted the disease from their mistress, who had fondled them 
continuously while an invalid from consumption. 
Dr. Hal C. Simpson, Denison, Iowa, has returned from 
Manila, P. I., having been in the United States Transport ser¬ 
vice and made one trip. Before that he made a trip to South 
Africa in charge of a transport of horses and mules. He reports 
his total mileage for the year as 38,500. In his first trip he ex¬ 
perienced an exciting shipwreck off the coast of Hayti, in which 
580 mules were lost. An account of his travels is promised 
the readers of the Review. 
Dr. Richard James Dunglison, an editor and author of 
many medical works, is dead at his home in Philadelphia of 
dropsy. Dr. Dunglison was a son of Professor Robley Dungli¬ 
son, of Jefferson Medical College. He was graduated from Jef¬ 
ferson College in 1856, and was the author of Dunglison’s Med¬ 
ical Dictionary and Dunglison’s History of Medicines. Dr. 
Dunglison was in the federal service from 1862 to 1865 as acting 
assistant surgeon. 
The banquet of the Alumni Association of the Veterinary 
Department of New York University (New York-American 
Veterinary College), held on the evening of April 1, was one of 
the most successful events of the kind we have ever attended, 
great interest being manifested and the most loyal support 
guaranteed to Alma Mater. Chancellor MacCracken and Dr. 
