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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
PENNSYLVANIA STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
We have received the full report of the fifteenth annual 
meeting of this association, which was held in Philadelphia, 
March 2d and 3d, together with the many interesting papers 
presented, and we regret that its publication is delayed until 
May on account of the pregnancy of our pages. The officers 
elected for the ensuing year were : President, James B. Rayner ; 
First Vice-President, M. E. Conard ; Second Vice-President, J. 
C. Foelker ; Third Vice-President, Geo. B. Jobson ; Treasurer, 
John R. Hart; Recording Secretary, Jacob Helmer; Corre¬ 
sponding Secretary, W. E. Rhoads. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
The Graduating Exercises of the Kansas City Veterinary 
College were held on March 31st, in the form of a banquet. 
R. R. Morrison, D. V. S., of White Plains, N. Y., sailed on 
the 24th ult., for Johannesburg, South Africa, whither he jour¬ 
neys upon a pleasure trip. 
Kansas City’s Bench Show, to be held March 31st to 
April 2d, promises to be a grand success. A large number of 
valuable dogs have been enlisted. 
Dr. E. H. Howard, of Boston, was elected President of the 
Alumni Association of the American Veterinary College, at its 
meeting on commencement day. A deserved compliment to a 
loyal son. 
The Western Quarantine Division of the B. A. I. is 
being supplied with veterinarians to fill the positions of inspec¬ 
tors at the ports of entry on the Mexican border, offices con¬ 
ducted by laymen heretofore. 
Dr. F. F. Shannon and Dr. H. B. Adair, inspectors in the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, have been transferred from the 
Meat-Inspection Division at Milwaukee, to the Quarantine Divi¬ 
sion, with headquarters at Kansas City. 
Cart-Horse Parade.—A movement is on foot in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I., to establish an annual cart-horse parade patterned 
after the famous event of that character that has done so much 
for Eondon owners of draft horses and the horses themselves. 
Veterinarian Geo. H. Bailey, of Portland, Me., was 
elected one of the vice-presidents of the International Horse¬ 
man’s Association, whose object is the protection of the interests 
