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this time by a Tamworth boar. With him she got a litter of ten 
little ones, all red and of the same type as father and mother. 
Notwithstanding the extreme hereditary power of the white boar 
of her second pregnancy, she had not received any telegonic 
effect from him. 
This experiment has a very great value of demonstration, 
and comes to increase the long series of evidences already 
existing against telegony. 
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Professional Philanthropy. —At the risk of being taxed 
with stubbornness in my ideas for recalling suggestions which 
have not received attention, I once again feel justified in writing 
on this subject, placing it before our readers, as I have already 
done in my “ chronicles” of February and June, 1899, viz,, on 
the propriety of a society to be formed among the veterinarians 
of the United States, for pecuniary assistance among the mem¬ 
bers, similar to that which has existed for years among phy¬ 
sicians, which not only assists members during their life, but 
provides at their death the remaining members of their families 
with a fund made by the members of the society specially as¬ 
sessed for the purpose. In the articles which I wrote on the 
subject I called the attention of our readers to the great amount 
of good which could be done, and it is not necessary to repeat 
it here. Should such a society be formed I have no doubt that 
plans of organization and suggestions could be obtained from 
the New York Physicians Mutual Aid Association, which, after 
several years of successful existence, is able to give the family 
of each member who dies one thousand dollars. 
But why should I again speak of this subject, as long as no 
one in America seems to have considered it worth noticing, and 
as not the slightest move has been made in the direction of es¬ 
tablishing such an association? Yet it would be so easy for our 
National Association to take the matter in hand and run the 
American Veterinary Mutual Aid Society. 
The reason which has constrained me to again bring this 
subject before the profession of America is because that in 
