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perfected a temporary organization at Buffalo, and which hopes 
to make it permanent at Nashville—will hold its meeting in 
connection with the U. S. V. M. A., only that it will have a 
separate day, Sept. lo. 
MINNESOTA STATE VETERINARY MEDICAE ASSOCIATION. 
The minutes of a very successful semi-annnal meeting of 
this association, which took place at Owatonna, July 13th and 
14th, have been received from Secretary Hay, and will be pub¬ 
lished in the September Review. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
“The American X Ray Journal ” is published at St. 
Louis. The first number has just appeared. It is edited by 
D. Heber Roberts. 
Dr. E. a. a. Grange^ late State Veterinarian of Michigan, 
has accepted the principalship of the Veterinary Department of 
the Detroit Medical College. 
Proe. Penberthy, of the Royal Veterinary College, Cam¬ 
den Town, has been elected President of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons (England). 
Dr. Charles W. Dabney has been appointed special agent 
in charge of the scientific and statistical iuYestigation of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. W. L. West, late of Ellsworth, Me., has sold his prac¬ 
tice to Drs. Caldwell and Pollard, and* located in Belfast, Maine. 
He is Secretary of the Maine Veterinary Medical Association. 
Rhinometers are deYices to measure the amount of air a 
man breathes through his nose, in order that his doctor may 
compare it to the amount he should take in that way. 
Dr. a. B. Morse, formerly an inspector in charge of the 
Government Meat Inspection at Sionx City, has been trans¬ 
ferred to the quarantine service and stationed on the Mexican 
border. 
A CAT belonging to Saloon-keeper Velte, of Newark, N. J., 
gave birth to five kittens, with but sixteen legs between them. 
Where the missing legs should be were ligaments binding all 
five cats together. All are well. 
“Our Broadest Future Is Yet Before Us.” —(Edi¬ 
torial in July Joiirnal of Comp. Med. and Vet. Arch.) What a 
