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over all competitors for the Baldwin-Zeigler expedition. The 
following extract from a letter will be of value to those inter¬ 
ested in the feeding of dogs: “Referring to the selection of 
your dog cakes by Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, I beg to advise you 
that my understanding is that these cakes will be used in mak¬ 
ing his trip over the ice in keeping his dogs in good condition 
for their final effort to land him at the North Pole. I take 
pleasure in advising you that while samples were submitted to 
Mr. Baldwin by every manufacturer in this and other countries, 
including all known kinds of dog foods, yours were selected on 
account of their superiority and on account of the success Mr. 
Baldwin and other Arctic explorers experienced in the former 
use of your goods. Mr. Baldwin is now about to leave Troin- 
soe, Norway. I can only add that it would be impossible for 
me to put Mr. Baldwin’s appreciation of your foods in too em¬ 
phatic a manner. Yours truly, Harry Balfe, with Austin, 
Nichols & Co., N. Y. C.” 
The London Tuberculosis Congress.—The American 
Veterinary Profession Well Represented. —A special 
cablegram to the New York Herald of Sunday, July 21, says : 
“ London, Saturday—London is the medical Mecca of the uni¬ 
verse to-night. The city is entertaining what is pronounced to be 
the most distinguished assemblage of the world’s physicians and 
surgeons of modern times brought together to attend the inter¬ 
national Tuberculosis Congress, which opens in Queen’s Hall on 
Monday, under royal patronage. America is well to the front. 
Next to the British representatives accredited to the congress 
her delegation is the largest here. Among the American repre¬ 
sentatives are Professor William Osier, of Johns Hopkins Uni¬ 
versity ; Dr. Herman Biggs, of New York ; Professor George 
Dock, of the University of Michigan ; Professor Liautard, dele¬ 
gate of the American Veterinary Medical Association ; Mr. Aus¬ 
tin Peters, of the Massachusetts Board of Cattle Commissioners, 
and seven representatives of the American Climatological x\sso- 
ciation ; Dr. Ravenal, of the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre¬ 
vention of Tuberculosis, and five representatives of the Ameri¬ 
can Tuberculosis Congress. The American Medical Association 
is officially represented by Dr. Allen T. Haight, of Chicago, and 
Dr. Judson Doland, of Philadelphia. The Americans read 
papers, and led discussions in almost every special phase of their 
congresses’ deliberations, and they are expected to monopolize 
the scientific aspect of cattle tuberculosis, which fills a promi¬ 
nent place in the congress’ programme. After the Duke of 
