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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Geers, the celebrated driver, has recently added to his 
string a trotting mule who turned the Memphis track in 2:473/ 
Dr. W. Horace Hoskins is now alone in the editorial and 
business conduct of the Journal of Co?nparative Medicine , Dr. 
H. D. Gill having retired from veterinary journalism 
Dr. James Beatty (TJ. P., ’98), Bureau of Animal Industry 
stationed at Philadelphia, died at the Episcopal Hospital, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Dec. 21, of purpura hsemorrhagica. 
Dr. E. C. Ross, ^ of New Haven, Conn., has returned from 
the South, where he found the shooting excellent. The doctor 
has recently added many improvements to his hospital (previ¬ 
ously fine), and now has one of the best equipped veterinary 
hospitals in the New England States. 
Dr. J. E. Wilder, formerly assistant to Prof. W. L. Will¬ 
iams, of the New York State Veterinary College, has removed 
to Dunkirk, N. Y., where he has located in practice, succeeding 
Dr. C. H. Jewell, who has accepted a position as meat inspector^ 
B. A. I. 
Great Britain Rid of Rabies. —The Eondon correspon¬ 
dent of the Therapeutic Gazette says : “ The report of the Board 
o Agriculture from England on the eradication of rabies in a doo- 
deserves careful reading. In England and Scotland there has 
not been a death from rabies since 1898, and this at a time 
when France reports from 2000 to 3000 cases in a single year.’ 
A few cases of rabies in animals have occurred in South Wales 
during this period, but no case has occurred in man. This re¬ 
sult is entirely due to the uniform enforcement of the muzzling 
order throughout the country some three years ago. Now there 
is scarcely an area in which even a temporary muzzling is found 
necessary. May the government meet with the same results in 
the struggle with tuberculosis as in that with rabies ! ” 
Dr. Duncan McEachran, Principal of the Veterinary De¬ 
partment of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, has tendered 
his resignation as Dominion Veterinary Inspector, and Dr. Ruth¬ 
erford, former Member of Parliament, has been appointed in h : s 
stead. In an interview in relation to his retirement from this 
pos 4 which he has held for so many years, Dr. McEachran made 
the following statement: “ It must not be supposed that there 
is any friction between myself and the minister. On the con¬ 
trary, our relations were never more friendly than at this mo- 
