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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
MINNESOTA STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The next annual meeting of the Minnesota State Veterinary 
Medical Association will be held at St. Paul, Wednesday and 
Thursday, January 15 and 16, 1902. The clinical part of the 
programme will be held at the State Experiment Station with 
Dr. Reynolds. K. J. McKenzie, Secretary-Treasurer. 
The report of the annual meeting of the Ontario Veterinary 
Association, held at Toronto, 20th ult., has been received from 
Secretary Sweetapple, and will appear in February Review. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. Charres EeeiS, of St. Louis, Mo., has just opened a 
very complete canine hospital, and it is being very generously 
patronized. 
Dr. H. C. Babcock, an inspector in the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, stationed at Sioux City, Iowa, has been transferred to 
Kansas City. 
Dr. D. C. Thomas has resigned his position as inspector in 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, and has returned to his old 
home at Rome, Ga., to take up practice. 
Dr. Thos. W. Carnachan, formerly meat inspector at Kan¬ 
sas City, is now stationed at Boston. Dr. Carnachan has recent¬ 
ly returned from a visit to his native heath in Scotland. 
Dr. John Forbes, chief inspector of the Government meat 
inspection at St. Joseph, Mo., has returned from a four months’ 
visit to Scotland. The Doctor reports a most enjoyable trip for 
himself and wife. 
Veterinarian J. Edward Rowe, Jr., of Summit, N. J., 
has recently been appointed Health Officer of his city. Summit 
is the first city in New Jersey, or elsewhere, so far as we have 
any knowledge, to recognize the advantages of having a doctor 
of comparative medicine at the head of the Health Department. 
Dr. A. J. Savage, of Colorado Springs, Col., started for 
South Africa in charge of a British transport of horses and 
mules, leaving New Orleans about Christmas. This is his third 
trip, his health (which had been poor) having greatly improved 
through these transatlantic journeys. He expects to return in 
from 70 to 90 days. 
