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INOCULATION FOR HOG CHOLERA A FAILURE. 
The prizes awarded to the successful competitors in special 
departments of study were then announced, and conferred upon 
the winners, by Prof. E. Doremus, M. D., of the Faculty. The 
following list comprises the fortunate names. 
Dr. George Lewis Warner obtained the gold medal of the 
Board of Trustees for the best general examination. 
Dr. A. C. Young received the prize of the Alumni Association, 
consisting of a set of medical veterinary books, for the second 
best general examination. 
The gold medal of the New York State Veterinary Society, 
offered for the best practical examination passed by the graduate 
of any of the veterinary institutions in the State, before a com¬ 
mittee appointed by the Society, was secured by Dr. Andrew 
Strange, one of the graduating class of the evening. 
Prof. Liautard’s anatomical prize for the senior class was 
carried off by Dr. F. W. Hopkins ; and that of the junior class 
by Mr. J. D. Fair. 
A silver medal was given to Dr. M. R. Trumbower, by 
Prof. C. B. Michener, for the best paper read and defended 
before the college association. 
The valedictory was handsomely delivered by Dr. R. C. Jones, 
of the graduating class, and was followed by the address to the 
students by Mr. F. S. Vanderveer, of the Board of Trustees. 
The benediction, pronounced by Dr. Weston, closed the pro¬ 
gramme of the evening. 
(From the Breeders' Gazette.) 
INOCULATION FOR HOG CHOLERA A FAILURE. 
M. Pasteur, the celebrated French physician whose investiga¬ 
tions of the germ theory of disease, and whose cure for hydro¬ 
phobia by inoculation have gained for him a world-wide reputation, 
some time ago turned his attention to the swine plague, which 
has played such havoc with the pork-producing interests of all 
countries, and after careful investigation discovered what he 
believed to be the germ of the disease, and was of the opinion 
