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of these successful coups is not due to the deceased, his share 
was a very large one. Last fall while he lay in bed at Wash¬ 
ington, suffering from an acute attack of pneumonia, he con¬ 
tinued to keep up a fusilade in behalf of the Army Bill, having 
a stenographer constantly at his bedside, and a messenger in 
easy call, sending letters to every one where he thought a vote 
could be secured. 
After the failure of the Army Bill, Dr. Huidekoper returned 
to Philadelphia, where he became a partner in practice with Dr. 
W. Horace Hoskins, with whom he had been associated in an 
editorial capacity for a number of years. 
There was scarcely an honor in the gift of the veterinary 
profession of his country and locality which has not been his. 
Thrice President of the United States Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation, President of the New York State Society, of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New York County, the New 
York Board of Veterinary Examiners, and of the various Penn¬ 
sylvania societies. He was for many years senior editor of the 
Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives; 
author of a textbook on the age of domestic animals, a treatise 
on the cat, editor of the Veterinary Blue Book, and other works 
of minor note. 
He was buried at Meadville, Dec. 20, and a large delegation 
of his Philadelphia colleagues accompanied the remains to their 
last resting place. 
['From the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives for 
December i\ 
RUSH SHIPPEN HUIDEKOPER. 
A great leader has fallen. The mantle of death has closed 
the earthly career of a strong man ; strong in that which is best 
remembered of men’s lives. His may be classed among those 
who are said to have led strenuous lives, clothed by nature 
with great physical strength, remarkable will power, great force 
of character, and endowed with a goodly share of worldly 
wealth ; a man of the highest and best ideals in all that he 
elected to do, successful in a remarkable degree along lines that 
are too seldom counted as the highest winnings of the world. 
He touched nothing that he did not leave it better than he found 
it. In veterinary journalism, he raised it to a higher plane ; in 
college work he made it stronger and better than ever before ; 
in State Legislature he aimed always at the highest ideals of 
professionalism ; in State Boards of Examiners he ever advo- 
