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veterinarian in the British transport service from New Orleans 
to South Africa. 
Many horses are being prostrated with heat in Kansas 
City, which has endured a heated term for over six weeks, and 
veterinarians are all busily employed. 
Michigan Veterinarians Coming to Ateantic City.— 
“ Detroit veterinarians are preparing for the September meeting 
at Atlantic City. I think you will see a fair representation 
from Michigan.”— (II. F. Palmer , Detroit .) 
A Frightful Mortality.— The police returns indicate that 
during the very heated term the latter part of June upwards of 
2000 horses were killed or disabled in New York City in six 
days, most of them succumbing to the awful heat. 
A Great Record.— u Up to the present time over 1500 an¬ 
imals have passed through this treatment [inoculation against 
Texas fever] under charge of Dr. Francis or his assistants and 
less than seven per cent, have died.”—( Breeder's Gazette). 
Dr. J. U. Burgett, of Indianola, Iowa, has accepted an 
appointment in the Bureau of Animal Industry, and is stationed 
at Chicago, Ill. Dr. Geo. D. Painter of Rayrno, Mo., and Dr. 
Fred. R. Eagle of Kansas City, Kans., have been appointed meat 
inspectors and assigned to duty in East St. Louis. 
Dr. J. E. Ellis, of Rock Port, Ills., a graduate of the Onta¬ 
rio Veterinary College, class of ’98, having been employed by 
the English Government to take a transport of horses to Port 
Elizabeth, South Africa, has just returned to his home, when he 
received a telegram to come at once and take charge of another 
transport. He will sail at once for South Africa. 
Dr. A. D. Galbraith, Greensburg, Ind., reports that in a 
case of oedema of the glottis a horse had fallen and was dying 
from asphyxia, that his breathing had ceased, but that the in¬ 
troduction of a tracheotomy tube and the energetic practice of 
artificial respiration brought the animal again to his feet, finally 
making an uneventful recovery. 
Dr. Repp, of the Veterinary Department of the Iowa State 
College ; Dr. Johnson, of the Iowa State Board of Veterinary 
Examiners ; Dr. Gibson, State Veterinarian of Iowa, and Dr. E. 
A. Merillat, of the Chicago Veterinary College, were recently 
called in consultation on an outbreak of glanders among two 
hundred mules at the P'air View Farm, near Odebott, Iowa. 
The State of Pennsylvania is to be congratulated upon the 
wisdom of its chief executive in reappointing Prof. Leonard 
Pearson to the position of State Veterinarian. He is an earnest 
