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service so long of the able, gifted and generous Dr. Griffin, who 
is one of onr legislative “ hustlers.” 
The 6th Regiment has recently lost the services of onr most 
progressive and untiring worker in onr legislative progress. Dr. 
Turner ; in fact, we all miss him sadly, for he spared neither 
brains, energy nor money for the general elevation of the Army 
Veterinary Service, and deserves everlasting gratitude. His 
successor is a man of ability in his profession, and I have no 
doubt that he will try to keep in the footsteps of his popular 
predecessor. 
The 7th Regiment’s veterinary service is now in charge of 
two very able and progressive men, Drs. Lem ay and McMiirdo, 
whose bright records cannot be made more brilliant by anything 
I can add. 
• Dr. Holsinger was one of this fighting regiment’s earliest 
veterinarians. He was killed by the Sioux in the Stanley cam¬ 
paign, in the Yellowstone Valley, in 1873. Dr. Tempany, now 
of the 9th, was also veterinarian of this regiment in 1873. Dr. 
W. H. Going, now of the ist, and your humble servant, were 
associates and colleagues in this regiment in the eighties. 
The 8th Regiment has had some brilliant, men as veterina¬ 
rians, but for some reason was not able to retain their services. 
In 1886 Veterinarian Corcoran transferred from the ist, and in 
1889 I had the good fortune to become his colleague. We have 
worked in energetic unison ever since, for the general good and 
elevation of the Army Veterinary Service, and now we are grati¬ 
fied to be ably supported by onr colonel. General Bacon. 
The 9th and loth (colored) regiments have recently added 
still more laurels to their already creditable records. They are 
represented by Drs. Tempany and MacDonald, 9th, Drs. Service 
and Forster, loth. Tempany and Service are each men of 
more than 35 years’ service, and, though naturally enfeebled by 
age, and the perilous privations of fronlier life in those long 
years, they did not hesitate to respond to their country’s latest 
call, even though disability meant disaster. MacDonald and 
Foster are so well known to the profession that any laudation 
from me is unnecessary. They are of considerable army ex¬ 
perience and strongly advocate army veterinary progress. 
Critics on army matters in the East were recently rampant, 
if they were but just to us, for only by agitation do we hope for 
favorable army veterinary legislation. 
Some charge the army authorities as being the cause of in¬ 
efficient veterinary service. Nothing could be moie erroneous. 
