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Toledo veterinarians are well known for their hospitality, a 
jolly good time is being arranged for. A carriage ride about 
the city or a good lake ride, an evening’s entertainment at the 
Kuclid Park Theatre, and a banquet. All graduate veterinarians 
are invited, and are especially invoked to bring their wives 
or their sweethearts with them. 
W. H. Gribble, D. V. S., Secretary. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
“ Canine Otorrhcea ” will be the title of the next article 
from the pen of Dr. Frank H. Miller, for the Review. 
Dr. N. S. Mayo, of Storrs, Conn., expects to attend the 
Omaha meeting of the U. S. V. M. A. 
Dr. Iv. a. Merillat, of Chicago, examined 800 cavalry 
horses in one week for the Government. 
Dr. W. W. Johnson has recently been added to the inspec¬ 
tion force at St. Joseph, Mo. 
Dr. J. H. McIvEVEy, Warrensburg, Mo., spent several weeks 
among friends and relatives in Canada this spring. 
Dr. H. M. Burgess, of Boston, is in the service of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry at St. Joseph, Mo. 
Veterinarian John T. Lee, of Tacoma, Washington, is 
President of the State Board of Health. 
Prof. James M. Wright, of the McKillip Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, Chicago, has been appointed comparative pathologist to 
the Chicago Academy of Science. 
Mr. J. Preston Hoskins, brother of our esteemed col¬ 
league, Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, has recently been elected as¬ 
sistant professor of German at Princeton College. 
Gaetee More, the Irish thoroughbred stallion, winner of 
last year’s English Derby, was recently sold to the Russian gov¬ 
ernment for $100,000. 
Quite a number of the horses bought by the government 
and taken to Southern camps have died of acclimation fever 
and complications. 
Three Hundred and Twenty Horses were purchased in 
one day in Chicago by the government inspectors for army ser¬ 
vice. 
The Veterinarians of the West are reporting an im- 
