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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW 
JERSEY. 
The forthcoming semi-annual meeting will be held on Thurs¬ 
day, July nth, 1901, at Stettler’s Assembly Hall, 844 Broad 
Street (adjoining Broad Street Station), Newark, N. J. 
A surgical clinic is to be made a feature of this meeting and 
the President’s determination that “ less time be spent in the 
transaction of routine business and more time devoted to the 
consideration of scientific and practical problems of the profes¬ 
sion” will be carried out so far as possible. 
George W. Pope, Secretary. 
NEWS AND ITEMS 
Dr. Lovejoy has been reappointed State Veterinarian of Ill¬ 
inois. 
Dr. J. W. Savage, of Colorado Springs, Col., has returned to 
that city after a most healthful trip to South Africa in charge 
of a British transport of horses and mules. 
Veterinarian Wm. V. Lusk, Second Cavalry, U. S. A., 
has returned to duty at Matanzas, Cuba, after a four months’ 
leave. He has entirely recovered from the fever which pros¬ 
trated him in his early tropical experience. 
The firm of Wright & Merillat, of Chicago, have found it 
necessary to employ two assistants, Dr. Black, of the class of ’89, 
Ontario Veterinary College, and E. Merillat, formerly dean of 
the McKillip Veterinary College. 
Dr. W. B. TRENBETH,of Cresco, la., and Dr. H. H. Conenour, 
of Pana, Ill., are among the successful candidates that took the 
Civil Service Examination for meat inspectors in Chicago last 
April. Both have been assigned to Chicago. 
Dr. R. S. Huidekoper has assumed active editorial control 
of the Journal^ Dr. Hoskins retaining the business management. 
The latter has been doing the work of the Joitrnal almost single 
handed for a number of years, and the new arrangement will 
greatly relieve his overtaxed energies. 
The New Haven Automobile Company has withdrawn 
its public vehicles from the streets of that city, complaining 
bitterly that the citizens would not patronize them, as the com¬ 
pany had been led to believe they would when they introduced 
them. 
A Prepotent Bitch.— A small water spaniel bitch in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., in May of this year gave birth to six healthy 
