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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Veterinarians in the Luetgert Case. —In the famous 
Cuetgert trial in Chicago the defense endeavored to show that 
certain bones found in the vat in lyiietgert’s factory and which 
the prosecution charged were those of his wife, whom he had 
murdered, Veterinarians L. A. Merillat and Joseph Hughes 
were called to testify as experts, and they both agreed that the 
bone the M. D.’s had pronounced a human femur belonged to a 
young hog; that the alleged section of a human rib was the 
navicular bone from a ruminating animal, and that the tem¬ 
poral bone exhibited was not so in fact, but was a number of 
conglomerate bones stuck together by artificial means. 
Increasing Facieities of the Bureau of Animae 
Industry.—A request for a substantial increase in appropria¬ 
tions will be asked by Secretary Wilson in his annual report to 
Congress. If the request is granted the additional funds will 
be applied to increasing the force of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry and to the farmers’ bulletins and the Weather Bureau. 
Secretary Wilson says that the facilities of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry for the inspection of meat intended for foreign 
shipment are overtaxed, and that the experiment already made 
by the bureau in the shipment of butter to England should be 
followed up by more work in that line. The increasing demand 
for farmers’ bulletins makes an additional appropriation neces¬ 
sary, not only to increase the circulation of the bulletins but to 
enlarge upon the range of subjects treated. He also desires to 
establish several new weather stations.— (^Brecdef'\^ Gasette.') 
Notes from “ F. X. T.”—New York County: Send the 
names and addresses of all illegal practitioners to the Judiciary 
Committee of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York 
County, together with as much evidence as possible. . . . 
Veterinarians of New York and adjacent counties ought to be¬ 
come members of the Veterinary Medical Association of New 
York County, and make it the best veterinary society in the 
United States. . . . The Veterinary Medical Association of 
New York County will hold its annual election of officers on 
Wednesday, Dec. ist, at the Academy of Medicine, Forty-third 
Street, near Fifth Avenue. All members should consider it their 
duty to be present to vote. . . . The “ Blue Book ” is in 
the printers’ hands, and is expected to be before the public 
shortly. . . . Prof. Eiautard has returned from Paris, anp 
can be found at his desk in the American Veterinary College 
working the same as he has done for years. 
