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sional journals, join their local, State and national associations, 
thereby giving themselves a chance to profit by the investiga¬ 
tions, observations and experience of older members of the pro¬ 
fession and wear off the diffidence and narrowmindedness that 
always results from non-intercourse with others. He said by 
way of explanation of the smallness of the graduating class that 
this was the connecting link between the two- and three-year 
courses, and under ordinary circumstances there would be no 
graduating class this year, but on account of allowances for for¬ 
mer attendance and attendance at other veterinary colleges 
there were the few mentioned above, and that what they lacked 
in numbers they made up in quality, most of them having 
passed in the honor class, and that the C. V. C. expected to add 
materially to her reputation through the class of 1898. 
Notes from the Hawaiian Islands. —From private 
letters of Dr. W. T. Monserrat, veterinarian to the Honolulu 
Board of Health, the following extracts are taken : “ I would 
like to amend your article in the April Review on liver flukes 
in cattle on these islands by saying that all the cattle reported 
on were slaughtered under my inspection. It is the only place 
where veterinary inspection is held, I am sorry to say ; in time 
I presume we will have inspection wherever cattle are slaught¬ 
ered. The cattle from the other islands are brought here by 
steamers in lots of 25 to 50. I send you a photo of the methods 
used in putting cattle aboard of these steamers ; the landings are 
very rough, and cattle are handled in a very crude manner; 
under the circumstances nothing else can be done. . . . The 
cattle here are being worried to a great extent by a fly, which 
some call the ‘ horn fly.’ I have never see anything like it be¬ 
fore. I send you some of them by this mail. It is about two- 
thirds the size of the house fly. They gather on the shoulders 
of the cattle in swarms and hang on firmly, and I am told they 
have killed quite a number of cattle on the other side of the 
island, boring great holes in their necks, and worrying the cattle 
to death. You may be familiar with this fly ; so if you can 
suggest any means of exterminating them let us know. [Corre¬ 
spondent was referred to the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry.] 
I received the ‘ Blue Book,’ and am very much pleased 
with it. . . Our Veterinary Bill has passed the House and is 
now before the Senate, having been referred to the Committee 
on Health after its second reading. I hardly think it will pass 
the third reading ; and then all it will need will be the signa¬ 
ture of the President. We have made some changes in it, and 
