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. NEWS AND- ITEMS. 
Review have recently received so many letters accompanying 
renewal of subscriptions to Volume XXII in which the writers 
land the work being done by this journal, and expressing the 
loss they would sustain if they did not regularly receive it, that 
it forces upon them the conviction that the only reason the 
Review does not have upon its mailing list every veterinarian 
in the United States is because they are not aware of what they 
are missing. If every reader would make it a point to call the 
attention of his less fortunate brother to this fact, he would not 
only be assisting his colleague, but would be helping himself— 
for the Review means just what it has often said : “The more 
patronage it receives the better it will be.” 
A Veterinarian the Inventor of the Pneumatic 
Tire. —It is not generally known that a veterinary surgeon was 
the source from whence sprung the present popular pneumatic 
tire, in universal use upon bicycles and racing sulkies and fast 
coming into general use upon pleasure and other vehicles ; but 
we find the following item in the L. A. W. Bidletin^ Boston, of 
April 8, 1898 : “ In 1889, J. B. Dunlop, a veterinary surgeon of 
Belfast, had constructed a hollow tire into which air was forced 
by means of a pump. A thin, endless rubber tube held the air, 
and a tough outer casing or shoe, of canvas and rubber, covered 
and enclosed the air tube. This, in turn, was cemented to the 
rim, thus providing an air cushion instead of a solid rubber tire. 
Experiments quickly showed that these pneumatic tires pro¬ 
vided most luxurious riding, and added about two miles per 
hour to a rider’s speed. These facts established their popular¬ 
ity, and they rapidly came into use.” 
The Veterinary Medicau Association of New York 
County held a profitable meeting on the 5th nit, a full report 
of which will be found in the department of “ Society Meet¬ 
ings.” Two interesting papers were read, and the announce¬ 
ment of that fact brought a number of visitors to their very 
central rooms in the Academy of Medicine, much to the gratifi¬ 
cation of the members, clearly demonstrating the wisdom of the 
movement recently inaugurated to increase an interest in the 
proceedings among those without as well as within the mem¬ 
bership by rendering the deliberations more instructive and 
valuable by providing topics for discussion, instead of the rou¬ 
tine business of sometime ago, which consisted largely of the 
roll-call and a motion to adjourn. Among those present we ob¬ 
serve the names of Drs. E. Nicolas, Charles Hall, Olof Schwarz- 
