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in company with Madam Hoskins and President Salmon, and 
after they had partaken of a very prolonged breakfast, dis¬ 
covered that they were speeding at the rate of 40 miles an hour 
in the direction of Cincinnati. They were enabled to change 
cars at Xenia, and if their train had not been delayed would 
have reached Chicago in time to have joined the greenhorns, but 
it was two hours late, and they found their luggage in charge 
of the Pullmans. The boys had not finished laughing at their 
• expense when the Convention adjourned. Dr. Hoskins and wife 
extended their trip to Denver, Col. 
Drs. Clement, Lowe and Bell laid off at Chicago for five 
hours and visited the McKillip Veterinary College, through 
which they were shown by President McKillip and Professor 
Wright. The latter entertained the trio at supper, and showed 
them much courtesy. 
Dr. Merrillat and wife, of Chicago, accompanied Dr. Peters 
to Lincoln, Neb., and spent a few days there. 
It was universally iterated that President Salmon’s address 
was the most valuable one in the history of the association. It 
will be found in the body of the report in this Review. 
Those who saw Prof. Pearson and Dr. C. E. Cotton riding a 
camel in the Streets of Cairo will never again doubt their eques¬ 
trian ability. 
One of the guests from the East was Mr. Charles F. Squibb, 
of the well-known manufacturing drug house of E. R. Sqiiibb 
& Sons, of Brooklyn and New York, who journeyed westward 
chiefly to converse with the members in reference to a revolu¬ 
tionary departure of his house in the manufacture of fluid ex¬ 
tracts, wherein acetic acid is made a substitute for alcohol, 
thereby reducing the cost of these expensive preparations by 
one-fifth or more. The esteem in which this old firm is held 
by the medical men of the country readily commanded for Mr. 
Squibb a respectful audience whenever he wished to explain 
his innovation, and when he assured his audience that acetic 
acid as a substitute for alcohol did not detract from the virtues 
of the extract, but that carefully conducted experiments had re¬ 
vealed the fact that it was just as potent, his assertion was taken 
as an investigated and established fact. The prices quoted ap¬ 
pear in striking contrast to our usual bills. For instance, the 
alcohol extract of belladonna root is about $1.25, the acetic, 45 
cents ; nux vomica, $1.25 ; acetic, 23 cents—and so on in the 
^ame proportions. 
