CORRESPONDENCE. 
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fully edited, and much that in former volumes was simply of 
local interest, has been eliminated ; nothing has been lost by 
this pruning, but much saved in time to the reader and cost to 
the association. 
It contains a table of contents, including the deliberations of 
the United States Experiment Station Veterinary Associa¬ 
tion and the Association of Veterinary Faculties of North 
America, list of officers and committees for 1897-8, resident 
State Secretaries, officers and committees for 1898-99, list 
of honorary and regular members ; minutes of the proceed¬ 
ings, including the President’s admirable address (publi.shed 
in the October Review), list of new members, the important 
discussion upon meat inspection, and the papers presented 
bv the various essayists, viz., “ Acute Indigestion in the Horse,” 
Roscoq R. Bell; “State Control of Hog Cholera,” M. H. 
Reynolds ; “ Wild and Cattle Diseases,” H. D. Fenimore ; 
“ Points of Value in a Country Practice,” S. S. Whitbeck; 
“ x\rmy Veterinary Service,” Corcoran and Treacy ; “ Aryte- 
noideraphy,” E. A. Merillat ; “ The Practicability of Immuniz¬ 
ing Breeding Cattle against Texas Fever by the ‘Tick 
Method,’” J. W. Connoway; “Our Milk Supply,” Charles 
Ellis. Following these pages the minutes and papers presented 
at the Experiment Station Veterinarians’ Meeting and the 
Faculties are given in full, making in all a very clear and in¬ 
telligible resujne of the convention at Omaha. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
PROF. LYMAN EXPLAINS THE “GLOBE” QUOTATION. 
Harvard University, Boston, November 3, 1898. 
Professor Roscoe R. Bell^ Editor: 
My Dear Doctor :—On page 588 of the November number 
of the Review I see you have done me the honor to refer to a 
paper of mine recently read at the opening exercises of this 
school, in so far as a portion of it was reported in the Boston 
Globe ; and that from that report you have inferred that I have 
stated that the American College did not at first admit students. 
I have never had the pleasure of seeing the report of my ad¬ 
dress which was made by the Globe^ but I have no doubt that 
you have quoted it correctly ; they, however, have misquoted, 
apparently, this portion of my address. M'hat I did say in this 
connection was this : 
“It was not until 1857 that our first school, the New York 
