CORRESPONDENCE. 
720 
Administration 
of. 
Date. 
Increase or De¬ 
crease in Funds. 
Number of Annual Pro¬ 
ceedings Published per 
Annum. 
Increase or Deciease in 
Membership. 
Michener. 
1889-90 
—^ 5.39 
I 
A 33 or 33 per annum 
Huidekoper. 
1890 92 
+ 18.1I 
* 0 
-j- 26 or 13 “ ‘‘ 
Williams. 
1892-93 
+ 117-58 
2 
-i- 68 or 68 “ “ 
Hoskins. 
1893-96 
- 351-81 
1 
3 
— 47 or 16 “ “ 
Osgood. 
1896-97 
A 328.52 
I 
— 7 or 7 “ “ 
* Report of 1890 was published by Am. Vet. Review without supervision by or ex 
pense to the association. 
A study of these data will show that the greatest gains in 
funds, membership and publication of proceedings were attained 
during one-year administrations, and it may be added that the 
highest sum of money in the treasury ($875), and the maximum 
membership (390) and number of annual reports published in 
one year was attained in 1892-93, a one-year administration, 
while the lowest ebb of our treasury (9 cents—several hundred 
dollars indebtedness) was reached in 1895, the middle year of a 
three-years presidential term, while the decrease of 47 in mem¬ 
bership during this administration excels all other records in 
our history. 
With such facts confronting us, there seems little argument 
in favor of prolonging the presidential term, especially in face of 
the alleged precedent that a faithful President must be re¬ 
elected and that the one-year Presidents have been incompetent. 
W. L. Williams. 
A “ CAUSTIC ” COMMUNICATION FROM THE ACCREDITED CREA¬ 
TOR OF THE “ CAVALRY CAUSTIC.” 
P'ORT Sam Houston, Texas, Dec. 9, 1897. 
Editors A^neiHca^i Vete^dnary Reviezv : 
Dear Sirs :—At the last meeting of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association, some smart Alick, name un¬ 
known and presumably of little consequence, constituting him¬ 
self a watch-dog or a bull-dog of that Association, brought my 
name before the Executive Committee as an advertiser of a pat¬ 
ent, quack, or cure-all remedy, viz., “ Griffin’s Cavalry Caustic,” 
purporting to cure spavin, curb, ringbone, sidebone, splint, rheu¬ 
matism ; supplanting the firing iron and raising hades generally 
with the regular practice and the superficial and deep anatomy 
of the genus equi^ and all for a dollar a bottle of six-ounce 
capacity, warranted to last a life-time if kept well corked and in 
a cool place. The S. A. doing the private detective business on 
his own hook for the Association, probably during the lonesome 
days between “calls,” could have reached the .“Cavalry Caus- 
